Greek lessons

The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking

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Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

Three accounts of modern liberalism

The most intriguing aspect of this book is that it’s written as a sort of ‘life in the day’ of the Colosseum, that vast edifice begun in Rome by the emperor Vespasian (AD 69–79) to entertain the masse

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