A Renegade History of the United States: a brief response
A while ago I finished reading (by audiobook) A Renegade History of the United States. The overarching theme of this entertaining and interesting book often seems to be: “look at these fucking...
View ArticleMyths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, I: Waterloo
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is now in the run up to a referendum on ‘renegotiated’ membership of the European Union which will supposedly return some sovereignty to UK...
View ArticleMyths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, III: British Superiority?
Continuing from my last post, before getting on to the pre-Waterloo history of Britain, some remarks on Britain as an exceptional and model state from the Hanoverian period (rule of the German...
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What holds China together? Ian Johnson, ChinaFilesBernie Sanders was wrong about America Conor Friedersdorf, AtlanticAssessing the problems caused by the creation of America Mark Spencer, TLSShould we...
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