Pete Hegseth’s Christianity—tribal, with plenty of enemies who deserve the sword—is central to the MAGA world view.

The Byzantine Empire turned to the West for help—but the consequences were far more complex than expected. What began as an alliance during the Crusades quickly shifted into tension, conflict, and ...

Is there a historical episode less understood by the general public and more urgently in need of clarification than the Crusades? To some on the right, the Crusades prefigured the modern wars that ...

Decades before the Crusades began, a small Christian kingdom in northern Spain launched bold raids into Islamic-controlled ...

A complete guide to almost two centuries of holy war.

Invoking God in messaging about Iran is not harmless posturing. In the Muslim world, it does not land as political theater.

The recorded past and the remembered past are seldom the same. Nowhere is this more evident than with the Crusades. The Crusades were a belated counter-offensive of Western Christians to come to the ...

When I was growing up as a Nice Jewish Boy in day school, we were taught that the Crusades were one of the worst episodes in history: marauding Christian soldiers massacring everyone in sight.