Steven Tucker

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.

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Land of the Rising Dead, Part One: Warrior Spirits

In Japan, even the dead get a say in how the nation’s war-machine should be run by the living.

Electronic Warfare

Videogames today increasingly seek to enlist a new generation of keyboard warriors and toy soldiers.

Indiana Jones and the Weapons of Doom

The Indiana Jones series carries some surprising truths about mankind’s eternal desire to harness the powers of spiritual warfare.

Potemkin Pillages: Putin As Cultural Grave-Robber

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.

Resurrecting GK Chesterton’s Democracy of the Dead 

This Veterans Day, growing disrespect for the war-dead seems a sad symptom of our ever-widening distance from the ways of our ancestors.

Is Putin Right To Call The West ‘Satanic’? 

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”.