I did not believe that it was possible for the low esteem in which I hold modern academics in general, and bourgeois historians in particular, to sink any lower than it already was. But that belief was misplaced. I have just had the misfortune to watch a three-part series put out by BBC Channel Four with the title: ‘Charles I, Downfall of a King’. I now hold the intellectual qualities of our modern historians at a slightly lower level than those of Mr Bean.

Source: The BBC slanders the English Revolution: a reply by Alan Woods – part one

While others on the left waffle on questions of imperial power and foreign relations, the freshman Democrat takes on American hegemony… lhan Omar has spent most of her adult life making

Source: The Real Trouble with Ilhan Omar | Common Dreams Views

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The american republic was always ‘work in progress’ despite all the propaganda about democracy: the period before the civil war makes obvious the flaws in the original formulation, etc…

Source:  The onset of a revolutionary transition? – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The question of Trump and Putin has been obvious from the start but without the full proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The global tide, one really ought to say ‘conspiracy’, of dictators…

Source:   Trump’s hatred of democracy in the global ‘conspiracy’ to set up dictators…. – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Note we have changed our site logo to ‘end(s) of history’…we will keep changing it every few months, perhaps… The term ‘end of history’ is a bit of a hack, as is…

Source: Eonic sequence, end of eonic sequence…//End of history – Wikipedia – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The history of political systems is mostly a hack of a primitive set of concepts doomed to failure because they are abstractions that soon wear out in the tide of historical collision. Democracies …

Source: Our DMNC is incomplete? – 1848+: The End(s) of History