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The Body Keeps the Score of Antisemitism: Words, Ideas and Emotions in History
I am not fond of using “ism” concepts. They turn the mess of our minds into falsely coherent doctrines. They disembody our passions to release them into the virtual spectacle of combative ideologies. They caricature clusters of fractious se...
Antisemitism: A Word in History
Welcome to the reading guide for the May book for the World History Book Club, Mark Mazower, Antisemitism: A Word in History (2025). ‘Antisemitism’ is a word that many people around the world disagree about vehemently, especially now in Aus...
Explorers, madness, colonialism & the power of ideas
World History Book Club April Live Call, Fernandez-Armesto, Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Members of the Burning Archive joined me for the Monthly Live Call of the World History Book Club on 30 April 2026.
You've got about 30 days left. Australia's Fuel and Political Crisis: Joel Jenkins
of Bogan Intelligentsia joined me last week to discuss the fuel and political crisis affecting Australia . . . and the world.
Earlier today all Angels of History and paid subscribers received their invitation to join me on the next History...
Invitation to read Heart of Darkness with global history
Dear Reader,
Please join me for a eight week slow read of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.
Conrad’s 1902 novella about his steamboat trip on the Congo River as an agent of the notorious Belgian colonial enterprise is one of the most impo...
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