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Eric Hobsbawn: The historian who defended communism, misread India and avoided the Holocaust
In The Age of Hobsbawm, Emile Chabal strips away the mythology surrounding one of 20th century’s most influential historians Written by: Murari 5 min readUpdated: Sep 6, 2026 05:03 PM IST The Age of Hobsbawm, Emile Chabal. Make us preferred source on Google History can be cruel to the historian himself. For decades, Eric Hobsbawm was…
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It’s the liberals…nervousness S Prasannarajan | 14 Jun, 2024 IT’S NOT THAT a new spectre is haunting Europe. The initial fear after the elections to the European Parliament made it look so. It’s just that the centre, kept intact for so long by the liberals, has collapsed in Europe’s two major powers in a radical rightwing wave.…
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The debate over evolution and its discoverer By Anne Matthews | June 10, 2024 Magnus D/Flickr Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin by Howard Markel; W. W. Norton, 368 pp., $35 In June 1860, the Oxford Natural History Museum hosted an open plenary session on a new book, The Origin of Species. Two thousand people turned up, a prizefighters’ crowd.…
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In a new book, the medical historian Howard Markel homes in on Darwin’s physical and emotional travails — and the colleagues who rallied to his cause. By Sam Kean Sam Kean is the author of six books on science history, including “The Icepick Surgeon” and “The Disappearing Spoon.” June 9, 2024BUY BOOK ▾ When you purchase an…
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Joel Whitney An excerpt from Joel Whitney’s ‘Flights: Radicals on the Run’. When the film version of Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American was released in early 1958 Greene was not happy. He skipped the premieres in New York and Washington, DC, and later called the movie “a complete travesty.” Greene usually liked to see his novels adapted,…
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by Akim Reinhardt The turn of the 21st century saw a burst of atheistic declarations and critiques in the United States and Great Britain, led by a small group of celebrity atheists including Philosopher Daniel Dennett, Biologist Richard Dawkins, and journalist Christopher Hitchens. I have always found this New Atheism, as the movement is often…
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