Napoleonic geopolitics didn’t make much impression on Europe’s maps, but its influence was wide-ranging.
Love has become widely seen as a democracy of salvation open to all.
Our information-rich civilisation is not superior or inferior to the pre-literate world of Brazil’s indigenous peoples, just different.
This period of turbulence could turn today’s twenty-somethings into the leaders of a new liberal revolution.
The elaborate infrastructure we have created in order to eat food before it rots is one of the great triumphs of modern civilisation.
The Greeks invented the notion of the interrelationship of geography and politics; indeed, they elaborated it in myriad ways.
It is not just politics that is beset by tribalism. The social sciences are also vulnerable to in-group bias.
Islam – unlike Christianity – may not have a central motif of pain, sin and suffering, but it reveals so much about what it means to live with adversity.
The story of the Cleveland Housing Renewal Project illustrates the tensions at the heart of capitalism and property – between growth and conservation, creation and decay.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, the laudator temporis acti of the high Victorian age, showed us there is more than one way to write history.
Oliver Twist shows us the young genius in the very act of mastering his craft, turning himself, by sheer willpower, into one of the world’s greatest writers.
If a peace deal is not reached, all the key ingredients are present for Yemen to become a failed state.
Asian literature, with its technologically-adept Chinese emperors, Animist Spirit-negotiators, and Yogic sages, shows us how to live well in troubled times.
Beijing wants to foster a world where Chinese standards replace those of the post-1945 US-led system.
The Romans have so much to teach us about what it means to live in a society in crisis.
No event in human history has affected the entire world so quickly and comprehensively.
Covid-19 heralds the end of our interconnected world. We’ll need wise leaders to navigate what comes next.
The Lawrence legend continues to win new devotees while his pragmatic contribution to warfare is neglected.
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.
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