Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
Caught between scepticism and spiritual hunger, the ‘crypto-religious’ are seeking something to believe in outside the parameters of organised religion.
While some later critics accused the correspondent Lafcadio Hearn of exoticising the land of the rising sun, his writings and translations remain historically valuable for their in..
Indian strikes on locations in Pakistan used by Kashmiri Jihadi organisations underline the enduring nature of the conflict, which has special risks for the UK.
Donald Trump’s reported restriction of the President’s Daily Brief represents just the latest change in six decades of ebb and flow in the readership of this top secret, highly cov..
The Second World War was a conflict like no other, yet for 80 years it has defined the very idea of war itself.
Fifty years on from the desperate evacuation of Saigon, the helicopter remains a potent, if hubristic, symbol of American power. It hovers, all-powerful, over everything, but it ca..
Graham Greene's troubled childhood hardened him as a writer and made him a shrewd observer of the human condition. Although his work is peppered with cynicism, it is at its most pr..
The architects of the postwar world order did not follow a coherent design. Their settlement evolved, like the construction of a cathedral, through fits and starts, improvisations,..
The possibilities of suburbia, one of the great legacies of the Edwardian fightback against the excesses of industrialisation, remain largely unexplored.
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