Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
The political philosopher Hannah Arendt believed that open dialogue and debate were vital to the health of democracy.
In recent times, the Royal Family has played a canny hand to advance Britain's interests with the country's most important ally, the United States.
The son of a Nazi-resistance fighter executed at Sachsenhausen, Christoph von Dohnányi became one of the world’s most revered conductors.
Global imbalances are unsustainable, and always unwind. The circumstances under which they do herald moments of crisis.
In today's hostile geopolitical environment, there is a growing belief that the Nordic nation should join the European Union. Yet the muddle of Norwegian coalition politics continu..
Sébastien Lecornu, France's new prime minister, belongs to a French Right that does not exist anymore: Gaullist and social minded. Can he appease his country's fractious parliament..
As the trial of the country's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, reaches its final stages, Donald Trump has raised the spectre of US interference in Brazilian politics.
Bitter partisan battles over intelligence, and accusations of collusion with foreign powers, have a long history in the United States.
From Stalin’s 1941 May Day parade in Moscow to Xi’s Tiananmen Square display, military spectacles have long been used to project power and mask vulnerability.
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