Gabriel Kolko (1932-2014), a longtime contributor to Counterpunch, burst onto the field of American historical scholarship with the publication of The Triumph of Conservatism: A…
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On April 6, I spoke with Pakistani journalist and historian Ahmed Rashid about his work covering Central Asia and other parts of the Muslim world.…
Here are two new videos from Richard Drake’s YouTube channel from an interview conducted in April with Daniel Shumway. Both are related to Charles Austin…
Controversy about Charles Austin Beard began in 1913 when he published An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. He turned thirty-nine that…
Charles Austin Beard’s “Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels,” excerpted in the July 2022 “From the Archive” column of Harper’s, originally appeared in the magazine’s September…
This article appeared in Counterpunch on May 18, 2022. Richard raises a question about the Ukraine war unasked in media accounts. To what extent is…
The origins of intellectual history as a distinct field cannot be stated with complete confidence, for either its theory or practice. The choice of any…