Know thyself

Three accounts of modern liberalism

What is America? And who is an American? These questions lie at the heart of Greg Grandin’s provocative new book, which also wrestles with a broader question: do the Americas, North and South, share a

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am

The story of some of the last peoples in Europe to embrace Christianity

An African perspective on Augustine of Hippo’s thought

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...