Author: Bryan Caswell

The Case Against Secession: How Democracy Works

Tunnel Vision: Rachel Chrastil’s Bismarck’s War

Inconvenient Suits: A Writ to Cure All Ills?

Empty Spectacle: Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II

Envoys of the Chancellor: Star Wars, the Jedi, and Peacekeeping in a Galaxy Far, Far, Away

Best of Frienemies: Adrian Goldsworthy’s Rome and Persia

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Making History, Marking History IX: The Historical Anniversaries of 2026

Battle of Panipat, fought 500 years ago today, April 20, 1526. Illustration from the Baburnama, a 1598 epic poetic recounting of the deeds of the founder of the Mughal Empire, Babur.

A Human Connection? James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg

Founding Novices: Wishful Thinking and Misguided Assumptions in the Early American Republic