The Avro Arrow’s demise was a high-tech tragedy
The made-in-Canada jet interceptor certainly had its problems. But the manner in which it was killed raised serious questions
TV’s Vikings is good fun and semi-reasonable history
But large-scale medieval violence and plundering wasn’t uniquely Viking – not by a long stretch
The first recorded strike occurred in Egypt in 1152 BC
During the reign of Pharaoh Rameses III, a small group of Egyptian royal tomb workers did the unthinkable
Harold Macmillan and the fickleness of history
The onetime British PM’s apparent affable, avuncular nature masked a lethal ruthlessness
The arc of the moral universe will bend toward justice
Amidst acts of nationalism and racism, it can be difficult to see the fundamental goodness of humanity – but it’s there
Bad news makes headlines, good acts make humanity
For all the advances in the last century, a legacy of wars, gulags and holocausts remind us that things were never good
Was the Armistice of 1918 a triumph or tragedy?
The 1918 Armistice was an enormous historical blunder that led to the greatest tragedy experienced in modern times
The unwelcome consequences of the collapse of empires
The demise of the German Hohenzollerns led to Hitler, while the collapse of the Austrian Habsburgs gave rise to malignant nationalism
John A. Macdonald’s mistake
Tearing down statues and decrying historic decisions in no way takes the measure of a great man, or his flaws when it comes to the Indigenous
