In early 1914 Bethmann Hollweg’s secretary, Kurt Riezler, published (pseudonymously) a book entitled Characteristics of Contemporary World P...

 ENIAC, one of the first “modern” computers, debuted in 1946. It weighed 27 tons, required 240 square feet (22.3 square meters) of floor spa...

  The Free Press 17 June 2024 →   Meritocracy now!   DEI is   on the way out , and   not a day too soon . But what should replace it? When i...

Sir Ernest Shackleton when he was about to set out on one of his expeditions, printed a statement in the papers, to this effect: “Men wanted...

 “The things that are now before us,” said the Princess, “require attention, and deserve it. What have I to do with the heroes or the monume...

How many “kulaks” died in the course of “de-kulakization”? On 1 January 1932, the GPU carried out a general census of all deportees: it list...

But the greatest lesson was one learned from the enemy: to hate. Word of the Malmédy Massacre, of the massacres of civilians at Stavelot, Tr...