Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
External actors have long imagined Iran as a collection of detachable ethnic blocs. In practice, its communities are so historically intertwined that separatism is almost inconceiv..
The Trump administration brought military supremacy to a geo-economic fight. The 21st century now has its own logic of mutually assured destruction.
The postwar world was built on a quintet of myths – the end of the world, the hero, the monster, the martyr and the final resurrection. They were the glue that held the internation..
For all its elevated sense of history and institutional self-worth, the modern British civil service owes its origins, in part, to China.
Once a sacred duty, hospitality was also a test of how societies welcomed strangers.
The chaos of the Trump Administration and a coming intergenerational transfer of wealth to millennials may revive Obama-style technocracy, shorn of progressive excesses.
The desire to avoid death has grown into a vast industry. Yet the truth is, we have already created a form of immortality. It just isn't human.
Against a backdrop of war in Europe and the Middle East, and fraying Anglo-American relations, Charles would do well to emulate the canny diplomacy of his predecessor.
Under Louis XIV, the jardin à la française, with its straight lines, geometric shapes and clear boundaries, made nature subordinate to man.
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