Neo-fascist Philosopher Julius Evola and the Trump White House
ON March 2, 2017, The American Conservative magazine published an article “Fascism in the White House? Steve Bannon does not see America the way Julius Evola did.“
Two recent articles which reference writings about Julius Evola
Here are links to two recent articles about Italian neo-fascist philosopher Julius Evola Both of these articles refer to research and writing I have done on Evola. His ideas have been a significant source of inspiration for the radical right in Europe and now have begun to attract increasing attention in the United States, particularly […]
Article: Aldo Moro, l’Italia e l’impero americano
The article Aldo Moro, l’Italia e l’impero americano by Richard Drake was published in Mondo Contemporaneo, n 1-2016. That article can be read (in the Italian) here. Link: http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDArticolo=56625&Tipo=Articolo%20PDF&lingua=en&idRivista=136
Historical Lessons for Our Time: Italy’s Response to the Challenge of Terrorism
From Tiempo devorado, Vol. 3, No 1 (2016): Bales per vots. Activisme i violència política a Europa des de 1991 ABSTRACT During the so-called years of lead, Italy had the highest rate of terrorist violence in the industrialized world. Terrorist groups, descending ideologically from the country’s Marxist Leninist and neofascist traditions, sought to destroy its democratic […]
Reflections on the 100th Anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
Monday marks 100 years since the Sykes-Picot agreement between Britain and France. With the then-secret agreement, they planned to divide up much of the Mideast between them at the end of World War I, which was still going on at the time. This post was the result of an interview conducted by accuracy.org, an independent media […]
Letter to the Editor of The Journal of American History
The following Letter to the Editor appeared in the March 2016 102 (4) issue of the Journal of American History. To the Editor: “Interchange: World War I,” the online discussion in the September 2015 issue (pp. 463–99), raised many important points about the American experience in that conflict. The reasons given for American intervention in the […]
The Greatest Speech in the History of the United States Senate and Its Meaning for Today
(Note: The following article first appeared on The Daily Call, February 23, 2016.) By Richard Drake Special to the Daily Call On 4 April 1917, Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin rose in the Senate to speak in opposition to Woodrow Wilson’s call for war against Germany, a message delivered by the President to a joint […]
Daily Call article on The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion
The following first appeared on The Daily Call, May 25, 2015. Then As Now: We Need To Mourn Our Own And All The Victims Of Our Wars All day long you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. — Book of Psalms, c. 100 BC By Mark L. […]
Plundering Latin America Yesterday and Today 2
In his classic Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, originally published in Spanish in 1971, Eduardo Galeano begins with an image of “those remote times when Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throat of the Indian civilizations.” Some fifty pages into his […]
Reflections on Harvey Mansfield’s “Science and the Humanities in America’s Universities,” a Lecture at the University of Montana, President’s Lecture Series, 1 May 2015
Prior to sending invitations for the President’s Lecture Series, I do background checks on prospective speakers. As the coordinator of the series, I want to know about the quality of a speaker’s ideas and capacity to address a town-gown audience. The most interesting discovery that turned up about Harvey Mansfield during my background check of […]
The Trans-Pacific Partnership in Historical Perspective
The following article by Richard Drake first appeared on June 28, 2015 on the History News Network. It is republished here with permission. The original article is located at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159784 The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement looms as yet another tactic designed to implement a corporate capitalist strategy for managing the world’s wealth. Though nineteenth-century economists […]
History News Network review of The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert M. LaFollette and U.S. Expansion
The following review of The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert M. LaFollette and U.S. Expansion first appeared on the History News Network and is republished here with permission. The review was written by Ron Briley of Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The original is located at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159458 With the imminent formal entrance of Wisconsin Governor Scott […]
Allies against empire: Robert La Follette and Albert Jay Nock opposed war from left and right.
The following article first appeared in The American Conservative (May/June 2015). “Allies against empire: Robert La Follette and Albert Jay nock opposed war from left and right..” The Free Library. 2015 The American Conservative LLC 30 Apr. 2015 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Allies+against+empire%3a+Robert+La+Follette+and+Albert+Jay+nock+opposed…-a0411015087 The progressive statesman Robert La Follette and the libertarian writer Albert Jay Nock epitomized the polar extremes […]
Mideast ills trace back in part to 1920 treaty
The following op-ed first appeared in The a Great Falls Tribune on March 18, 2015. In his “Messages to the World,” Osama bin Laden identified the Treaty of Sèvres of 1920 as the starting point for Islam’s vendetta against the West. Little remembered in the West, Sèvres is one of the five treaties that concluded […]
Recent review in Catholic Historical Review
The following is my review of Chiesa cattolica e minoranze in Italia nella prima metà del novecento: Il caso Veneto a confronto, ed. By Raffaella Perin. The review appeared in the Catholic Historical Review, winter 2015, vol. 101, no. 1, pp. 171-172. With antisemitism in Italy on the rise, any new research about this intractable problem […]