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When the Cold War First Went Hot in Korea
How the War Without End on the Korean Peninsula Began
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Kyle Orton
The Long Shadow of the Soviet Union in South Africa
Three decades of rule by the African National Congress (ANC) has destroyed South Africa. Hardly surprising: this is what always happens when Soviet…
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Kyle Orton
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The September Massacres and the Nature of the French Revolution
Nothing “Went Wrong” With the French Revolution: It Relied on Murder and Terror From the Start
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Kyle Orton
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August 2023
Royal Conspiracy and Religious Hatred: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
A plot against the French Protestant leadership during a Royal wedding in 1572 ignited the wholesale slaughter of Protestants in Paris by Catholic mobs…
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Kyle Orton
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Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, the New Islamic State Spokesman, Introduces Yet Another New “Caliph”
Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi is confirmed to be dead. The new Islamic State caliph is Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi.
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Kyle Orton
The Origins of Vampire Stories in the Christian-Islamic Borderlands
The themes of modern vampire stories are based on events in Serbia in the 1720s-30s, during the brief period when Austria captured it from the Ottoman…
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Kyle Orton
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The “Brown Scare”: Did America Overreact to Axis Spies and Supporters?
The U.S. anti-Communist crackdowns are remembered disapprovingly as "Red Scares". The use of similar methods against Nazi supporters during the Second…
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Kyle Orton
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A Brief History of the “First Red Scare”
In 1919-20, in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and the First World War, the U.S. government implemented a series of domestic security…
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Kyle Orton
July 2023
Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Life in Jihad and Al-Qaeda After His Death
Looking at Dr. Z's life a year after it ended: the importance of his Islamist career, what his killing means for the jihadist movement, and not losing…
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Kyle Orton
Remembering the Lost World of Europe’s Jews
Book Review: ‘The Love of Mortal Beings’, by Batnadiv HaKarmi
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Kyle Orton
Can Russia Ever Be Democratic?
A new paper by Maria Snegovaya argues that Russia's democratic transition in the 1990s did not fail; it never started. Assessing that argument raises…
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Kyle Orton
June 2023
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