See: crawdaddy.substack.com/p/the-easter...
Writer, book lover, curious soul. Retired. New life in NY after living about 30 years in Europe and Asia.
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Antecedents to the Wars of the Roses open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Kulturgeschichte of the French Revolution open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Historical treatment of the most famous lovers open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The definitive one-volume take on the Russian revolution open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The Walkman of the 2020s, no doubt.
Wagner as cultural force open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
For fans of Amadeus, an academic take open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The great, little known gem of early Christianity open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The Civil War and its aftermath open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The First Romantic open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Xerox invented the PC, then flubbed it open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
A political and historical document of classical Rome open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The French Revolution, to 1789 open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
How a multi-ethnic empire was stable and organized for 600 years open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Paglia explains art, religion, culture, and human nature open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The moment when Rome became an Empire open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Passion, ambition, and discovery open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Pre- and post-Columbus: disaster and reinvention open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Shock of the new open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Yes, he's become a suck-assing enabler.
"It's complicated": neuroscientific, genetic and environmental factors behind behavior open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Neoliberal dystopia open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
From invincibility to decadence open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
That neglected classical civilization open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Absolutely first rate historical inquiry open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Breaking the metaphysical impasse open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Neglected modernist master open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Why western ascendency may be slipping open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
A meditation on imperial ambition open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Homeless in New York open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Architect of the Pax Mongolica open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The most famous Roman open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Historical background to HBO's Rome and BBC's I, Claudius open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Intro to Spanish history and culture open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Impact of ancient Greek culture open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Political and cultural history of the German mind open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Weimar's artistic revolution open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Primer on the Feudal Age open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Is capitalism terminally ill? open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
1200 years of an Army, republican and imperial open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Renaissance courtier and painter open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The first radical artists, Belle Époque France open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Diplomacy sowing seeds of destruction open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The political science of Greece’s “cultural efflorescence” in socio-historical context open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Philosophy and politics of Postmodernism open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
I mean, next time I'm in Winterthur, Switzerland.
I am happy to stand corrected! Thank you. I have never seen an industrial background in any of his paintings and the brushstrokes appeared uncharacteristic to me. Next time I'm in Arles, I will check it out.
I'm serious. I've never seen that painting and it doesn't look like VVG to me. Where is it? (In case you're interested, my view on a great bio: crawdaddy.substack.com/p/23-agony-1...)
The Eastern Rome that survived 1,000 years longer than the West open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
That looks like AI van Gogh to me.
Knighthood explained in a unique biography open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
I know the history of the USSR and China, you obviously don't. Whatever.
OMG, you're serious. A relic Stalinist! You actually believe that Mao's victims were ALL fascists, imperialists, etc.? China before the revolution was corrupt and chaotic. However, that doesn't mean Mao's way was the only way forward. Frankly, your views are literally 100 years out of date.
This has to be a joke.
Mao as stalinist and sociopathic killer open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
We need to look at alternative societies to understand the range of human potential open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Steppe warriors rivaling Greece and Rome open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
What, if anything, were the Phoenicians? open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Historical treatment of the most famous lovers open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Case studies in Roman military leadership open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Hellenism, the twilight of Greek ascendancy open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The Magna Carta failure open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The role model for autocratic monarchy open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
1200 years of an Army, republican and imperial open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Enlightenment pamphleteer, revolutionary naif, and flawed pol open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Competing monotheisms open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
From invincibility to decadence open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Paglia explains art, religion, culture, and human nature open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Companion history to Shakespeare's War of the Roses cycle open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Authority to act, also cruelty and despotism open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Nationalism: what is it, where did it come from? open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The political science of Greece’s “cultural efflorescence” in socio-historical context open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Genghis Khan as enlightened and visionary open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Nationalism in Eastern Europe open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The “last” war of religion in Europe open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Imperial Christianity open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Cyrus the Great, Darius, and Xerxes open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Mysticism and witchcraft in the 17C open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
900 years in power open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The immediate historical context, also its ramifications for today open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
What's taking the place of institutional religions? open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Umayyad Spain versus Carolingian Europe open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
That neglected classical civilization open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The School of Paris: the foreign, Jewish artists of inter-war France open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Hellenism, the twilight of Greek ascendancy open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The great, little known gem of early Christianity open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
The basics on Sparta open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Determined by Robert Sapolsky. Suetonius: the Lives of the Caesars by Tom Holland.
The difficult birth of the first states open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Modern science under philosophical attack open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Let's hope he articulates his disapproval clearly and unambiguously.
The God Emperor who saved Rome - for a time open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
How government engineers the development and function of capitalism open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #capitalism #socialism #keynes
Cyrus the Great, Darius, and Xerxes open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #Xerxes #Darius #Cyrus #Persia #Achaemenids #Persia #TomHolland #Greece #Marathon #Sparta #Athens #Themistocles #Leonidas #Thermopylae #Perikles #Pericles
The Manhattan Project, from scientific discovery to detonation open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #ManhattanProject #Szilard #neutron #chain #reaction #Curie #atom #Einstein #Bohr #Fermi #Oppenheimer #Heisenberg #Nazi #RichardRhodes #a-bomb #fission #nuclear
The genesis of Wagner's opus open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Brilliant Beethoven bio open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...
Excellent bio of a jazz genius open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd... #jazz #bebop #Monk
Snapshot of a dazzling historical and artistic turning point open.substack.com/pub/crawdadd...