Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series ...

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My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

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John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

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A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

I had come along in the course of my duties as a hopeless necromantic. I don’t think I have ever believed that ...

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...