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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Cancelling Churchill: Did Sir Winston Cause the Bengal Famine?

Attempts to tear down the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill are really just attempts to tear down the legacy of the West itself.

Powers of the Air: Poison Gas, Demons and Childhood Mass Hysteria in War-Zones

Rumors of gas-poisoned Iranian schoolgirls have far stranger parallels in conflict-zones elsewhere.

Occidental Heroes or Foreign Devils?: The Feminist War for Mother Russia’s Soul

The anti-Christian antics of certain pro-Ukrainian activist groups can sometimes make Putin seem a saint by comparison.

Land of the Rising Dead, Part Two: Death and Taxes

As military spending spirals, should Tokyo consider channeling the free-market spirit of the 1980s?

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”.