Ancient History
Restless zeal of the insomniac emperor
There is something uncanny about the story of Justinian
God is in the details even of secular history
The story of the Middle East cannot be explained without religion
The layers of ancient Rome
Emperors existed at the intersection of many seeming incompatibilities
The feud that felled the Roman Republic
The personal differences between Caesar and Cato mattered
The boy who would be King of the World
Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court
Modern echoes of ancient history
Stephen Kershaw may have taken accessibility too far in his classical account
Russian Orthodoxy on trial
Symphonia or caesaropapism?
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
Warfare in the classical world
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the nature of warfare in Ancient Greece and Rome
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
