My non-professional field, military history, is overwhelmingly male, not I think, because women are unwelcome, (and there are excellent military historians who are women), but because it just attract… (View Post)

I had thought that embezzlement was pretty much a rite of passage, for most French politicians. (View Post)

No. Murder, which is arguably worse. (View Post)

Nationalism goes hand in hand with the growth of democracy. Nationalism dissolves multi-national empires, as the upper classes come to identify more with their own people than with the imperial elite… (View Post)

Yes, that’s correct. Welby’s remarks were reasonable. (View Post)