In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University ...

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

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

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy. Capitalism is scary because it is so uncertain: the whole point of market logic ...

The Mont Pelerin Society was set up in 1947 with the aim of ensuring that the apparent triumph of freedom over fascism in the Second World War should instead be understood as a defeat. Inspired by its ...

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

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

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

In 2013, a group of French and Egyptian archaeologists discovered of cache of papyri as old as the Great Pyramid of Giza. Some of the texts were written by people who had worked on the pyramids: a ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...