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John Lukacs

John Lukacs is the author of more than 30 books, including Five Days in London: May 1940. His most recent book is A Short History of the Twentieth Century.

The End of Liberalism

The End of Liberalism

What happens when public opinion is diminished and popular sentiment is aroused

by John Lukacs | Monday, June 04, 2018
Why Science Is Not Enough

Why Science Is Not Enough

Only through our imagination can we know the world

by John Lukacs | Monday, September 08, 2014
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Seventy Years Later

The Second World War destroyed Adolf Hitler, but his legacy is showing disturbing signs of life

by John Lukacs | Tuesday, December 01, 2009
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Putting Man Before Descartes

Human knowledge is personal and participant—placing us at the center of the universe

by John Lukacs | Monday, December 01, 2008

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2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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