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

T errence Malick ​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival ...

Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...

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 ...

Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there ...

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

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

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

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 ...

Mussorgsky’s alcoholism caught up with him before he could finish Khovanshchina. At the time of his death in 1881 ...