Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
When first published, John Milton's Paradise Lost ignited criticism and controversy for its lack of rhyming poetry and it became part of a battle for the soul of English literature..
The United States' strategy towards China is premised on an unending rivalry. Yet strategic competitions do end and America needs to imagine how its conflict with China might one d..
Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powells' visions of modernity differed in crucial respects, but taken together their work offers a vivid chronicle of Britain's secularising society caught..
From the 1970s onwards, the Soviet Union and Russia were debilitated by old, feeble and inept leaders. American risks following the same path.
The late Albanian writer Ismail Kadare maintained a delicate balance between collaboration and dissent under Enver Hoxha's brutal Communist dictatorship. His openness to both innoc..
Jutland, land of bad beer and cheap pork, of beautiful heaths and shifting sands, of millennia-old corpses preserved in peat bogs, of Viking myths, and of wind, lots and lots of wi..
Sport clearly reflects the grubby, greedy world that feeds on it, but it also stands apart to some degree, preserving a spectacle of effort and emotion, mind and body, flesh and fe..
Recent military failures in Ukraine and the Middle East shed light on warfare's future while reaffirming the age-old truth that, in conflict, little is ever truly new.
Stagnation at home and turmoil abroad demand a radical rethink of how – and why – Britain forges its future leaders.
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