Book review: Outrageous
A new popular history of Section 28 and the struggle in Britain for LGBT rights is enlightening and surprisingly funny.
Politics & Conflict
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".
Is it too late to end the Congo’s “forever war”?
After almost thirty years of conflict, society in the Congo has been transformed. Jason K. Stears interviewed hundreds of participants to understand the war and how peace might still be…
Book review: Time’s monster
Priya Satia maintains that historians not only influence the way Britain views its past; they also delineate the possibilities for the future.
Dystopia by degrees
As the climate crisis deepens, so will the battle over how to tackle it. Should we expect an increase in violence?
“Deep Deception” and policing without consent
Five women deceived by undercover cops, who they believed to be their partners, have published their stories in a new book.
A new college in Poland aims to produce a godly elite
An ultra-conservative university in eastern Europe is teaching an army of lawyers equipped to influence the "liberal west".