Steven Pinker: The world is getting better, not worse. Seriously.
But in his new book Enlightenment Now, Pinker warns authoritarian populism on the right, and repressiveness on the left, could thwart progress
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History
The American West was even wilder than we think
Historian and author Mark A. Lause contends the cowboys of the mythic American West were more diverse—and downtrodden—than we realize
How 1920s British spy agency files reveal a proto-Cold War rife with intrigue
An expert on Russia discovered that bureaucrats and spies secretly gathered to watch Soviet movies
The Halifax explosion: How newspapers covered the tragedy in 1917
In the aftermath of a disaster that killed thousands and injured thousands more, newspapers from Toronto to Hawaii and France to Australia scrambled to update readers
The death of the department store (1796-2017)
They were once temples of commerce and hubs of cultural activity. But rising competition, then the internet, rendered them irrelevant.
Why Herbert Hoover was a giant of the 20th-century: A Q&A with biographer Ken Whyte
Hoover was viewed as the most competent man in America for feats such as saving 10 million from starvation during WWI
How Stalin starved four million Ukrainians to death
Author Anne Applebaum, an expert on Russia and Eastern Europe, says Russia still denies that Holodomor ever happened
The unknown story of how 300,000 Jews were saved in WWII
In secret talks, would-be saviours duped Himmler into thinking he should stop the extermination of Jews
The KKK has a history in Canada. And it can return.
Canada is not immune to hate, and a look at the history of the Ku Klux Klan’s expansion efforts proves it
Maclean’s named the Great War
The term ’the Great War’ first appeared in print in Maclean’s back in October 1914