Xiong’an is being built on a stretch of nondescript agricultural land about three times the size of New York City. The site ...

The binary of before and after a particular military event is often misleading when it comes to the experience of those who lived through it. For Jews and members of the Resistance, the days and weeks ...

Thom Dyke is a barrister and a member of the Bar Human Rights Committee.

Peter E. Gordon teaches European intellectual history at Harvard. One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and its meaning ...

Last month, the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement set up shadow administrations in key areas it has conquered in the ...

Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the ...

Great significance has been attributed to the government of Giorgia Meloni, who became Italy’s prime minister in ...

But wait, actually, no. The mother’s contribution is independent of the child’s sex. The child’s sex is determined by the ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

Most readers of Austen’s fiction feel instinctively that her heroines could not properly be united with anyone other than the ...

I’m paying for the ride.’ In his documentary Made in England (2024), Scorsese remembers ‘repeatedly and obsessively’ watching ...

But the search for allies is an inevitable component of electoralism, especially in Germany with its system of mixed ...