History
Kiev and Moscow: a tale of two Russias
Ukraine threatens Putin because it offers an alternative version of Russia
As war rages we must not give in to hate
Human lives escape the simple enmities of war and nationalism
Wonders and warnings from the ancient world
A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire
The curse of history
Campaign Diary: the war in Ukraine in context
Dr Gabriella Onan: Sex Historian
The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut
Just a pill?
How psychiatry pathologises female experience
The birthplace of wine
Raise a toast to Armenian resilience
The Great Game
Professor Jeremy Black on the 19th century cold war over Asia between Russian and Britain
Storm in a cauldron
As witches’ brews go, it’s rather weak tea
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
How EDI corrupts public life
It compels people to accept falsehoods in the name of equality
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Denial or confession?
Mandelson is a true prince of the logocracy, whose greatest skill was, and still is, the emptying of language of fixed meaning
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping