Vladimir Putin has been comparing COVID-19 to medieval steppe peoples. Why? It actually fits very well into a pattern of how Russian propaganda uses medieval…
Politics
At the National Prayer Breakfast this morning, President Trump promoted his typically dark vision of Middle Eastern politics: We have seen peace loving Muslims brutalize,…
Donald Trump's rise has revealed an ugly truth: that, for some, prejudice is an addictive source of pleasure. Can a medieval idea help us fight…
A vile slur with medieval origins has gone mainstream due to the rise of Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and the Alt-Right: "cuck". Here's what you…
The dissenters on the Supreme Court claim that "traditional" marriage has existed for "millennia." Justices Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Thomas clearly aren't medievalists...
Qatar's inhumane treatment of its migrant workers has recently been called "something out of the Middle Ages". But is it really? What was life like…
Social conservatives mourn the "death of chivalry". But it wasn't feminists who killed it, it was the Victorians...