3am Thoughts
Alan FlanaganEssays weaving together history, politics, society and culture, as a critique of our turbulent times.
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Marxists and Martyrs: the Islamic Revolution
This is the final part of the series. Part 1 covered the period from the closing years of the Qajar Dynasty to the accession of the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925—the antecedents of the relationship between religion and the state, constitutional r...
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3am Thoughts is long-form history for loud times; essays that take the issues and conflicts filling the headlines and give them the time that our attention-starved media landscape never does. No hot takes, no outrage of the hour. Essays tha...
Building a Nation: Pahlavi Iran, the 'CIA Coup' Myth, and the White Revolution
This is Part 2 of the series. Part 1 covered the period from the closing years of the Qajar Dynasty to the accession of the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925—the antecedents of the relationship between religion and the state, constitutional reform, t...
From Tobacco Fatwas to Constitutional Reform and a Cavalry Officer
The history of Iran in the West is often told as a simple story that starts in 1953 with a CIA/MI6-backed coup that ‘installed a dictator’, and that led to the Islamic Revolution, which, if lamentable in some dimensions, was an understandab...
The Mask Has Fully Slipped
The online (dis)information war over Iran escalated into a fever pitch once Great Satan and Little Satan entered the chat and thus opened the doors for the RightSideofHistory™ rabble to finally decide on where they stand. Unsurprisingly, gi...
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Lifelong history nerd, History & English lit. BA, former lawyer now working in science. 3am Thoughts is the name I gave to long-form essays intertwining history and politics, society and culture.
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