"The White Man's Burden" is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. Conquest in the poem is not portrayed as a way for the white race to gain individual or national wealth or power. Instead, the speaker defines white imperialism and colonialism in moral terms, as a “burden” that the white race must take up to help the non-white races develop civilisation.

The "Protocols" is a discredited forgery first published in Russia in 1903. It falsely claims to report on 24 meetings in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897, where Jews and Freemasons supposedly plotted to undermine Christian civilisation and establish a world state. The document alleges that liberalism and socialism would be used for subversion, and if that failed, European capitals would be sabotaged. Read more...

The legend of Atlantis has fascinated historians, writers, and explorers for centuries. In his influential 1882 book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, Ignatius Donnelly thoroughly investigated what he considered Atlantis's lost civilisation. This post reviews Donnelly's theories, the historical background, and the continuing influence of his ideas on popular culture and modern scholarship. A copy of Donnelly's book is linked to this Blog Post.