Napoleon in Egypt by Paul Strathern
In 1789 Napoleon set off to conquer the East. We're still living with the fallout, says Michael Binyon
Politics & Conflict
Gurus of endless war
Rumsfeld resigned, Wolfowitz ousted, Fukuyama defected, 'Scooter' Libby convicted. You could be forgiven for thinking that neoconservatives have had their day. But that would be a grave error, warns political…
Choice busters
Anti-abortion groups have found a new way to deny women their rights, says Solana Larsen. And this time it's global
Holy Relics
Why do we still tolerate the presence of bishops in the House of Lords? Jake Bromberg calls for their eviction
Free from crooked things
Buddhism is fatalistic, deeply misogynist and riven with superstition. And yet, argues Karen Connelly, it also inspires resistance to tyranny and the fight for freedom
Be tolerant or else
Eliane Glaser challenges a core British value
Editorial: He did God
Tony Blair helped bring the toxic certainties of religious belief back into politics and culture. Let's hope Gordon Brown doesn't do the same, says Caspar Melville
Hollow Land
The apparently random patchwork of settlement in the occupied West Bank in fact reveals a deliberate plan of colonisation and control, reports Daniel Miller
Springtime for Hitler
The hidden art of the Third Reich, argues Roger Griffin, betrays uncomfortable links with more radical modernism
Irish stew
In the fledgling Stormont democracy, discovers Newton Emerson, some are more equal than others