Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
The 21st century needs utopias. We have the ability to imagine more optimistic futures, where technology reduces suffering, and expands the sphere of human creativity and endeavour..
The United States has never developed a comprehensive system of awards for merit - why?
As the trade war between the United States and China intensifies, Southeast Asian countries will encounter increasing pressure to align with either Washington or Beijing.
Prussian Homage captures a golden moment in Polish history. Matejko's painting was not just a powerful weapon in the fight to recover his nation's statehood, it was also a lesson i..
The hedgerow is never truly permanent. The hedge in art reflects the hedge in reality, a shifting entity, a feature that is sometimes lost and sometimes replaced.
The public display of a pope’s remains is at the heart of the funeral ritual. Its origins lie in the pomp and prestige expected of late medieval Europe's most powerful institutions..
Sino-African relations are fraught with problems and power imbalances. But American disinterest in the continent’s problems has allowed China to emerge as a reliable, if imperfect,..
Leisure is an attitude of receptive contemplation, the source, according to the ancient Greeks, of our intellectual and spiritual knowledge. It's time to rediscover its true meanin..
Despite his apparent disdain for Latin America, President Trump's political style and strongman tendencies are the recognisable product of a wider, pan-American political culture w..
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