Europe
Meloni is no fascist
Media hysteria distorts our understanding of European politics
East Germany — the illusion of Communist prosperity
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany
How West Germany rode the storm
Professor Jeremy Black discusses West Germany’s politics and prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s with Graham Stewart
Dividing Germany
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the emergence of rival Germanys after the Second World War
How Hitler became unassailable
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how Hitler entrenched his power across all aspects of German life in the 1930s
Kaiser Wilhelm’s Reich
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Germany’s political arena in the years leading up to the First World War
Germany in the shadow of Napoleon
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands
Germany in the Baroque Age
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the cultural achievements of the Baroque Age in the German states
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
