The racist origin story of the most common college entrance exam
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How samba schools in Brazil are teaching Black history through the parades at Carnival.
Unlearned historical lessons from Jacques-Louis David’s retrospective at the Louvre.
Third and last part of an article discussing Imperia, the large concrete statue of a semi-fictional medieval sex worker. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here. A Clandestine Erection Imperia went up in April 1993, and I won’t even try to explain the insane backstory. Short version: some people in Constance wanted a […]
12th of March 2026 The vexed question of the place of politics in sport has surfaced yet again at the Winter Olympics in Milan. The Ukrainian skeleton skier Vladyslav Heraskevych wanted to wear a “helmet of remembrance” displaying the names of 24 fellow athletes killed during the Russian invasion of his country. The International Olympic … Continue reading More Sport, Less War by Robert Skidelsky. Published in The American Conservative.
THERE WAS A popular gotcha back in the day for which tech utopians showed a special fondness. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, with conservative critics still noisily alarmed at the internet and social media, proselytisers for the new technology would dip back into history and unearth some comparable commentator whose own example was comically self-defeating.
Some Americans have been talking about our shared European culture lately! As CT’s resident American-in-Europe, I feel I must respond. So, here’s a European culture story. (This is Part 2, You can find Part 1 here.) Okay, so Imperia! Big concrete statue on the shore of Lake Constance. Medieval sex worker. 9 meters tall, weighs […]
Mar 05, 2026, The Spectator I. What is happening to the ‘rules-based international order’ despairingly invoked by bewildered European leaders? The broad answer is that we are living through the retreat of American hegemony, masked by bluster and marked by contradictions. The retreat has two aspects, economic and geopolitical. Economists talk about Trump’s tariffs breaking … Continue reading What comes after America’s retreat?
A top-secret 1960s project tasked physics postdocs with building The Bomb
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A memoir interwoven with historical research that might leave you wondering if anything really changes in these United States.