“the 1848 uprisings were a dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions”

Terrorism’s record of failure

Two hundred years of the Decembrist Revolt Daniel ...

Global markets and the new illiberalism

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

There is something pleasant in the thought that joviality will reign to-morrow in such grim homes as London workhouses,” a reporter for the West Londoner wrote on Christmas Eve 1870. “There will be an