‘he seemed the perfect leader, but he’s a man of the people no more’

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

LIKE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS THESE days, Chris Murphy has been doing some soul searching. For years, the Connecticut Senator, who took office shortly after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in New

Living opposite Hitler In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was ...

T he Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern is an extremely capable human being. No, I’m not talking about the damehood or being the world’s youngest female head of government (Ardern was just 37 when she became

President Donald Trump emerges through a pair of handsome wooden doors on the third floor of the White House. On his way down the wide, carpeted staircase, he passes portraits of his predecessors. Nix

“Spirit of Stalin, come and talk to me.” If you want to communicate through a medium with the Soviet Union’s feared dictator, Joseph Stalin, you can find a site on the internet via Russian Google. The