Old enemies of democracy

Daniel Johnson worries that an illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values of liberty, democracy and the rule of law

How the Qin forged a great power from the fragments of the Warring States

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My Berlin probably peaked on 9th November 2014. In a spacious borrowed flat in Mitte, not far from trendy Arkonaplatz, I had countersigned a passport application for a baby just born to friends: Briti

The brutal rule of the Thirty in Athens

Who Owns Beauty? Bénédicte Savoy (Polity, £25) ...