America, a Target of Envy

I flew from London to Boston on September 9, just a couple of days before the attack. Something rather unusual happened at the U.S. Customs desk. The clerk briefly checked my only piece of luggage and zipping it closed he… Read More

The Native World, Part Two

We broke off yesterday’s narrative at the year 1531, which ends with the conquest of Peru and the apparition of the Virgin Mary in Mexico. We shall go back to the year of 1398, one hundred and thirty years before the Virgin’s apparition on Tepeyac Hill.

The Native World, Part One

The legacy of the native peoples of America is enormous and mysterious. The remnants of their lost civilizations prompt us to ask: what happened to them? In Europe and Asia, Romans, Greeks, Slavs, Chinese, Egyptians, Persians lived on in one way or another. What happened in America that was so different?

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