When it was released in 1994, the British historian Eric Hobsbawm’s The Age of Extremes was a global bestseller, translated into many languages. It was a sensation in Brazil, for example, where ...

Hobsbawm could lay claim to being the most popular and well-known historian in the world. But he was also a Marxist who remained unapologetic about his decadeslong membership in the Communist Party.

Hobsbawm joined the Communist Party as a very young man, and was loyal, in his way, to the end. Communism also offered, as perhaps no non-religious ideas do today, a sense of community.

Hobsbawm considered himself the best-known historian in the country since Arnold Toynbee. Evans goes further: in one particularly fanciful passage, he says that empiricism and humanism are qualities ...

Hobsbawm serves up no panaceas; but he does define the problem with penetrating clarity and he does suggest that any solution, from the most humane to the least humane, will probably have to be ...

Politics / The Democratic National Committee’s forthcoming “autopsy” is a cover-up to protect the failed leaders who twice lost to Trump. Jeet Heer Defeat can be soul crushing, but at least offers the ...

The British historian Eric Hobsbawm has died. I have written about this man on a few occasions, including this post in which I quoted writer Oliver Kamm: According to the historian Robert Conquest ...

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Eric Hobsbawm, who was honored as one of Britain’s most distinguished historians despite retaining an allegiance to the Communist Party that lasted long after many supporters had left in disgust ...

Eric Hobsbawm was a rare bird himself: “the last living Communist”, as he was teased at his 90th birthday party, and one of the last committed Marxist historians.

To that end, Hobsbawm founded the Names Not Numbersideas festival in 2009 to connect people from “different walks of life – business, culture, media, politics, academia, with each other in a ...

Hobsbawm joined the Communist Party as a very young man, and was loyal, in his way, to the end. Communism also offered, as perhaps no non-religious ideas do today, a sense of community.