Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism is “premised on the conviction that we cannot see impressionism clearly” without grasping the impact on the movement’s leading painters of the Franco-Prussian ...

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As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander ...

All of Hamburg hates the AfD,” tens of thousands of demonstrators chanted in Germany’s second-largest city on 19 January this ...

As Conservative MP Gareth Bacon put it, “Britain is under attack.” Into the midst of this contention came theologian Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), a largely positive account of ...

Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?

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If you were to drive from Barcaldine to Longreach to Winton, as I did recently, you would return fearing that the omnishambles of the Voice referendum will be joined in due course by the train wreck ...

Mao Zedong, the autodidact son of well-to-do peasants, was rough-spoken, ruthless, mercurial and volatile. Zhou Enlai, the well-educated scion of a fallen but patrician family, was suave, wily, ...