The Globalist

There must be a new urgency to ensuring that people everywhere understand the horrors of the past and the dangers of today’s authoritarian trends.

This summer will mark the centenary of the appearance of the first volume of Oswald Spengler’s influential The Decline of the West.

Two movies about Britain in 1940 – Dunkirk and the Darkest Hour – have collected plenty of Oscar nominations. Yet, both movies are full of historical nonsense.

Mark Mazower’s “Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe” is a magisterial book.