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Empire
March 11, 2021
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The Underground Activists Who Fought for Freedom Across Asia
Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Mahatma Gandhi appear in this history of revolutionary struggles. But the main characters are lesser-known figures.
February 22, 2021
Magazine
Kanishk Tharoor
Pankaj Mishra’s Reckoning With Liberalism’s Bloody Past
The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.
October 21, 2020
Magazine
Daniel Bessner
America Has No Duty to Rule the World
The story of the country’s rise to dominance shows how it can step back.
September 22, 2020
Dexter Fergie
Wendell Willkie’s World Without Borders
How a Republican presidential candidate became a leading critic of empire
June 22, 2016
Shaj Mathew
Brexit Exposes Britain’s Massive Inferiority Complex
June 10, 2013
Maya Jasanoff
Hearts of Darkness
The incoherence of the British Empire
March 17, 2011
Benny Morris
The Liar as Hero
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