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Colonial History
February 22, 2021
Magazine
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.
February 20, 2013
How Ghastly Were the Beginnings of European America?
The Savage New World
July 18, 1988
Henry Fairlie on What Europeans Thought of Our Revolution
It really was a shot heard round the world.

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