Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
In interwar Vienna, a host of pioneers and visionaries sought to harness science for the transformation of human society. Out of this extraordinary ferment arose many of the forces..
Set in Thailand, the new season of HBO's The White Lotus evokes the West's deep history of engagement with Asian spirituality. At its heart, the show is about the individual's stru..
In the 19th and 20th centuries, geologists waged an epic struggle against other sciences to uncover the age of our planet, and triumphed. Their scientific discoveries revealed the ..
State bureaucracies, riven with sclerotic complexity, intervene in an ever-growing number of ways but with little success. As growth and living standards continue to stagnate, hist..
In the West, facial hair has been all but banished from the world of politics. It is now the enemies of the Pax Americana who sport the moustaches and beards that were once essenti..
In the long history of the United States' interest in Greenland, the pursuit of patient negotiations with allies has often fulfilled Washington's strategic requirements. This may n..
Why do people the world over enjoy listening to songs sung in French?
Squalor, when sufficiently diluted and distanced through the medium of prose, paint or song, carries an undeniably authentic charge of what it means to be mortal and mired in the f..
In the turbulent 1820s, the rise of diverse nationalisms, demands for constitutional government, and deft management by established regimes, created something new: the idea of a un..
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