Updated. By Juan Cole One of the frustrations for a world historian is the unyieldingly parochial vision of the North Atlantic common among journalists and even many historians, and consequently among the public. The world leaders gathering for the D-Day commemoration should by all rights include the Pakistani and Indian prime , Indian Prime Minister […]
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No, Ben Shapiro, Science isn’t White
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In this clip via Twitter, Ben Shapiro, who is somehow touted as a serious thinker on the Right, alleges that the scientific method is peculiar to something he calls “the West.” He appears to think it consists of Greek empiricism mixed with what he terms a “Judeo-Christian” conviction that to […]
Medieval Crusaders in Levant Married, Recruited Locals, DNA shows
In the pitt, three were Europeans, four were Near Easterners, and the two had European ancestry but with less West European markers.
How Colonialists Led the Way to our Environmental Crisis of Over-Exploitation
Our understanding of colonialism is often limited to simple ideas about what we think colonialism looked like in the past
America’s current Racism, Patriarchy and Fear of Immigrants Eerily look like 1919
1919 was the year Confederate General Stonewall Jackson’s statue was erected on a main thoroughfare in Richmond, Virginia
On the Universalism of Notre Dame, from Muslim Arches to the Goddess of Reason
It is a world-historical edifice, reflecting the light mysticism of Plato and the pointed arches of Zoroastrian Iran and Abbasid Baghdad
No, Fox’s Katie Pavlich, the US wasn’t the First to Abolish Slavery
Fox Cable News’ Katie Pavlich asserted Tuesday, “They keep blaming America for slavery, but the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. America came along as the first country to end it within 150 years. And we get no credit for that.” Seriously, how utterly and comprehensively brain dead stupid and ignorant do […]
Dear Tucker Carlson: Iraqis Invented Civilization and, like, Literacy when “White Men” were Painting themselves Blue
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Tucker Carlson has been playing David Duke with a northeast accent and bow tie for some years, but in radio interviews with Bubba the Love Sponge from a decade ago released by Media Matters, he gave up the dog whistle for butchering and barbecuing the dog. Mediamatters4america: “Tucker Carlson makes […]
What does the World look like from Somalia? Explaining why Ilhan Omar Scares the Horses in DC
Racist hierarchies and segregation, crushing wars of conquest, the disruption and displacement of entire regions
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