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Eleanora Gallenzi

A Tribute To Flora Sandes

When most people think of women’s roles during the First and Second World War, they imagine them working in factories, on the...

Andrew Alam-Nist

Should We Judge Those In The Past By The Standards Of The Present?

Editors Note: This essay was originally written for John Locke Institute Essay Competition Intro David Hume, in an infamous footnote in...

Andrew Alam-Nist

The Genocide That The West Forgot

When I ask if people know what Operation Searchlight is, generally very few people have heard the name. Those who have rarely know the...

Kent Cafferty

Was Stalingrad The Turning Point Of World War Two?

The Battle of Stalingrad was not a battle in the traditional sense, as it was a protracted sub-conflict in its own right. There were no...

Andrew Alam-Nist

Has Germany Been Unfairly Blamed For The First World War?

Throughout history, historians and contemporaries have had vastly varying opinions on the degree to which Germany should be held...

Andrew Alam-Nist

Are Nuclear Weapons Responsible For A New Era Of Peace?

The advent of nuclear weapons accompanied a remarkable and somewhat unprecedented decline in large interstate conflicts. There has not...

Andrew Alam-Nist

Has Christianity Been An Aid Or A Hindrance To The Development Of Western Philosophical Thought?

For nearly 1500 years prior to the Enlightenment, as well as during it, Christianity held a stranglehold on Western philosophy throughout...

Andrew Alam-Nist

The Red Brigades And The Kidnapping Of Aldo Moro

The so-called “Years of Lead” (Anni di piombo) – which spanned over a decade, from the end of the 1960s to the early 1980s – were one of...