Sri Lanka’s dream village
The protest site in Colombo helped remove one of Asia’s most powerful strongmen. The site may be destroyed, but its spirit lives on.
Politics & Conflict
Q&A: Victoria Amelina
We talk to the Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina about the Russian assault on culture and its importance in times of conflict.
Sweden’s summer of hate
Sweden has long been seen as a tolerant nation – but the far right now holds unprecedented power. What happened?
Identity crisis in Northern Ireland?
For the first time in the history of Northern Ireland, Catholics outnumber Protestants, but perhaps the most significant change is the rise of people of no religion.
Women, life, freedom
The mass protests in Iran are a call for freedom and dignity. Sanctions on the morality police are not enough.
Book review: Outrageous
A new popular history of Section 28 and the struggle in Britain for LGBT rights is enlightening and surprisingly funny.
Book review: Rule, Nostalgia
Hannah Rose Woods asks us to see British history as it was, rather than what we imagined it might have been.
Robespierre: man of virtue or terror?
A new book on the French Revolution’s leading crusader asks how a champion of human rights became the master of the guillotine.
‘‘Many progressives have abandoned basic liberal values’’
We talk with Francis Fukuyama about why he believes liberalism today is badly in need of articulation and celebration.
Hungary’s dangerous model of “Christian Democracy”
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a former atheist, is using religion to justify his goal to "make Hungary great again".