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Conrad, Heart of Darkness #2: "the merry dance of death and trade"

Slow Read of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Week Two

Jun 15

The Tragedy of Memory Politics

Early Access Interview with Ukrainian and Holocaust Historian, Marta Havryshko

Jun 13

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Heart of Darkness #1: This also has been one of the dark places of the earth

Slow Read of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Jun 8

Shopping and Living in the Lies of Choice

Shopping, Women and The Age of Choice in the Liberal West

Jun 6

A Month of Reflections on Antisemitism and Other Antipathies

Vicarious Trauma, Historical Mythology and the Substack Writer

Jun 2

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to choose

Book of the Month: Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life

Jun 1

May 2026

Settler Colonialism, Genocides, and the History of Decolonisation (Part Two)

Or, why the Julia Set is a better guide to history than a two-dimensional map

May 30

How the New Antisemitism Spiralled Out of Control

And along the way formed a new American-Jewish identity

May 23

Forget Friend vs Foe. Hate's Antidote is Play.

Historians: Huizinga's concept of play vs Schmitt's concept of the political

May 16

The Body Keeps the Score of Antisemitism: Words, Ideas and Emotions in History

My Reflections on Mark Mazower, On Antisemitism: A Word in History

May 9

Antisemitism: A Word in History

World History Book Club, May: Mark Mazower, Antisemitism: A Word in History (2025)

May 2

Explorers, madness, colonialism & the power of ideas

World History Book Club April Live Call, Fernandez-Armesto, Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

May 1

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