Abandoned Footnotes

Another year is coming to an end, another  Ragnarok deferred ; a time to take stock and give thanks. It’s been a very busy year. I spent six...

I've been recently re-reading Juan Linz 's Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes , a book I didn't appreciate enough when I fi...

Ian Kershaw's remarkable book  The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich  is a really clever piece of public op...

As part of my research on  Francisco Franco , I recently had the opportunity to spend some time at the  Archivo General de la Administración...

(Some commentary on recent elections in North Korea, and on electoral rituals generally) As many readers will know, North Korea just had a...

(Warning: speculation about Spanish history during the Franco era by an amateur). I’m currently in Spain, doing some research on Fran...