In the present age of denouncing “colonialism,” we need to better understand what imperialism was and why it came about.

Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 was a surprise, I conjecture, to Trump himself. I think he was surprised earlier in the ...

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Daily reports of Palestinians killed in Gaza focus on deaths from Israeli bombs and missiles, now exceeding 40,000. Yet the famine stalking the Strip today threatens the lives of many times ...

Hurley, Kelly 1990. Hereditary taint and cultural contagion: The social etiology of fin‐de‐siècle degeneration theory. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. 14 ...