Many Europeans call the Byzantine Empire ‘Greek’, when in practice it was very ethnically diverse. Greeks composed a relatively small portion of this multi-ethnic empire, and most Byzantine emperors were not ethnic Greeks. Justinian was obliged to build the current Hagia Sophia after it was dam...
Today, Progressives are a large part of both the Green and Democrat parties, while raw Socialists, Marxists, Anarchists, and Communists pretty much make up the remainder of the two. Just my opinion…(Heck, progressives are entrenched in the Republican Party as well. We call them “Moderates...
GreekAnatolia(meaning “The East”) is what the Romans calledAsia Minor, and the Turks now callAnadolu.The Asian peninsula of Anatolia encompasses twice the land area of California, and has hosted the following astounding drama of human history (listed sequentially in time): the world’s first ...
Risk perception researcher Lennart Sjöberg calls this kind of trust (trust that the authorities know what they’re doing) “epistemic trust”; one of us (Sandman) often calls it “knowability”; practical risk communicators normally call it “uncertainty.” It applies not just to the experts’...
If the Ottoman regime was not itself "imperialism," then we have the use of a novel principle that only Europeans have empires or imperial ideology (an ideology of conquest, like Islamic Jihād) -- even though we have decided that "Empire" is the only non-Eurocentric thing to call the ...