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In the early 1970s, the idea that private life meant a right to be left alone – an idea forged over centuries – began to disappear. We should mourn its absence.
Through his visionary leadership, inspired rhetoric, and willingness to compromise, John F. Kennedy summoned the narrative of American hope, his most powerful and enduring legacy.
An awareness of Roman history was crucial to the founding of the American Republic. Perhaps the solution to the United States’ current external and internal crisis still lies with ..
The German art historian Aby Warburg understood that the mysterious power of iconography lies in its ability to transform the meanings of visual imagery over time. It is a power th..
Hayden White’s Metahistory was published fifty years ago. Many of today’s historians are its children.
The Yom Kippur war of 1973 heralded a decade of global energy crises. The situation fifty years on remains perilous, but in ways no one could have predicted, not least in Israel’s ..
A popular feature of any discussion of Anglo-French relations, talk of an entente cordiale obscures a complex, often challenging history – but it remains an effective political too..
For Israelis, the October 1973 national trauma is being revisited in October 2023.
Western Europe is pursuing a contradictory policy, declaring a commitment to both enlarge the EU and integrate its members ever deeper, in opposition to the wishes of its electorat..
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