Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer and independent scholar whose work has appeared in print and online in the US, UK, Australia and Ireland, and who writes the regular ‘Strange Statesmen’ column in Fortean Times magazine, detailing the lives and misdeeds of history’s strangest politicians and military dictators. He is the author of over ten books about various overlapping fields such as history, politics, economics, science, folklore, mythology, medicine, fringe-beliefs and eccentrics. His latest book, ‘Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science’ (Frontline/Pen & Sword) is out now, and demonstrates how the political abuse of science in historic totalitarian dictatorships is playing out anew again today in the modern West.
In Japan, even the dead get a say in how the nation’s war-machine should be run by the living.
Steven TuckerMarch 12, 2023
Videogames today increasingly seek to enlist a new generation of keyboard warriors and toy soldiers.
Steven TuckerMarch 1, 2023
The Indiana Jones series carries some surprising truths about mankind’s eternal desire to harness the powers of spiritual warfare.
Steven TuckerJanuary 18, 2023
When our own statue-toppling Western culture-warriors seek to empty our museums and metaphorically shoot busts of our own national heroes through the skull here at home, they should consider the implications. Revisionist culture-wars may one day prevent nations from defending themselves properly in real shooting-wars.
Steven TuckerDecember 12, 2022
This Veterans Day, growing disrespect for the war-dead seems a sad symptom of our ever-widening distance from the ways of our ancestors.
Steven TuckerNovember 11, 2022
For Orthodox Archpriest Alexander Novopashin, “Satanism” is really a synonym for entropy, or “the Evil that dissolves societies like a hydra with its many tentacles”.
Steven TuckerNovember 3, 2022