Teresa Bejan’s history of equality before egalitarianism locates the origins of a modern conviction in the England of the 1640s. It is an exceptional work that marks a new beginning. A Quaker meeting, ...

The Fifth Republic’s deteriorating fiscal situation offers the strongest parallel with the waning years of the Ancien Régime.

The arson attack on Limoges’s town hall destroyed centuries of history and damaged an inclusive vision of the Republic. Whether France defends it is a question for the future. The town hall of Limoges ...

Bojan Pancevski’s account of the Nord Stream sabotage reveals an operation that foreshadowed how Ukraine would take the war to Russia. Gas from the ruptured Nord Stream 2 pipeline bubbles to the ...

The annual conferences held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reveal a worldview that is dependent on continued confrontation with the West. An anti-American mural painting along the wall of ...

Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal. A stamp printed by Russian 2009 showing the nuclear ...

Tyranny is an ancient concept with a history going back to the ancient Greeks. Understanding how the best minds have grappled with this elusive term can enrich contemporary discussion about the ...

In Europe, America and Russia, an unhealthy obsession with grand geopolitical schemes has often clouded the judgement of statesmen and scholars. A 'World Island' map by Richard Edes Harrison, showing ...

An authoritarian, expansionist Soviet Union represented the heartland threat Mackinder had long foreseen. But ironically, his insights birthed a strategy for containing that threat—and building the ...

A mercantilist, multipolar geopolitical system appears to be emerging from within the liberal world order, destined to replace it. The experience of Britain's imperial past suggests that this ...

In the West, facial hair has been all but banished from the world of politics. It is now the enemies of the Pax Americana who sport the moustaches and beards that were once essential symbols of power ...