What is The Worst Men in History?
American essayist, Thomas Carlyle once said that “history is but the biography of great men”. He also once said that Germany should be “the president of Europe”, though, so how much stock we can put in his opinion seems debatable at best. No, history is really the stories of people. And people are a number of things. Some of them are great, sure. But some of them really aren’t. This blog is dedicate to those people: the worst men in history. That’s not to say that they’re necessarily the most evil , evil as a concept is often fairly subjective and if my blog was just about evil people, I’d write a post about Hitler and call it a day. No, people can be the “worst” in many different ways, and this blog is about all of them. A few of them, for example, might be really racist (though, how that is or isn’t evil, I’ll leave to the reader). See Captain James Cook who, upon setting foot upon what is now called Australia, attempted to shoot the first indigenous person he saw. Some of