Test-tube democracy

The centre left has joined the populist right in despairing of good government

SIENA IS ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORIC CITIES – a living vision of the medieval world found now in very few places. Here is the architecture and street plan of a medieval city-state, the oldest bank in th

The threat to democracy from cultural polarization

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

Statue of Spinoza near Amsterdam’s city hall ...