The History Master
@myhistorymaster.bsky.social
Just a historian & political analyst for East Asia with a pretentious social media handle. "Interesting times" are overrated.
I've always found this rather infamous entry in Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King's diary to be telling on this point: The bomb wasn't dropped on Japan explicitly because of racism, but racism made it easier to justify and think that the Japanese deserved to suffer more than the Germans did.
August 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I've always found this rather infamous entry in Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King's diary to be telling on this point: The bomb wasn't dropped on Japan explicitly because of racism, but racism made it easier to justify and think that the Japanese deserved to suffer more than the Germans did.
WELL NOT ANYMORE, APPARENTLY!
February 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
WELL NOT ANYMORE, APPARENTLY!
A friendly reminder for the crowd in Washington this week:
February 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A friendly reminder for the crowd in Washington this week:
Bit late to this party, but I'm reminded of the glum British writer who essentially made this same point about the Nazis during WWII. (From Richard Overy's Why the Allies Won)
November 10, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Bit late to this party, but I'm reminded of the glum British writer who essentially made this same point about the Nazis during WWII. (From Richard Overy's Why the Allies Won)
I'm not a number, I'm a free man! (Or something...)
September 17, 2024 at 2:15 AM
I'm not a number, I'm a free man! (Or something...)
What's your sign?
August 17, 2024 at 1:59 PM
What's your sign?
Embrace the nothing!
June 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Embrace the nothing!
I still regret not taking a look at these when I had the time. This is material from the Carnegie Endowment, by-the-by.
April 9, 2024 at 12:41 AM
I still regret not taking a look at these when I had the time. This is material from the Carnegie Endowment, by-the-by.