Decline in three dimensions
Neil McLynn
Late Antiquity was not just a story of Decline and Fall – Roman elites thrived in a changing world.
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Late Antiquity was not just a story of Decline and Fall – Roman elites thrived in a changing world.
The Covid-19 pandemic signals a long period of global instability.
Social upheaval has often been a catalyst for artistic change – the Renaissance was no exception.
The influenza pandemic behaved much like the conflict itself – picking out the young and fit before their time.
Ghost-town London had its harbingers in literature and history. How will it emerge from its isolation?
The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated all the geopolitical fault lines of the past decade.
Crises of knowledge precipitate drives towards specialisation. In our digital age we still need polymaths.
In modern Russia, the past is being rewritten to suit Vladimir Putin’s script.
Modern political rights are tied to citizenship and yet national mythologies die hard.
Westphalia’s legacy of compromise and conditional sovereignty shows the way to peace in the Middle East.
Relativism has left us in an impasse. The ancient study of human nature offers a route out.
The worst form of ignorance in politics is an inflated opinion of one’s own wisdom.
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