A new biography of Stephen Hawking presents the renowned physicist not simply as a scientific celebrity who overcame severe disability, but as a researcher whose relationships, intellectual clarity and determination were central
As America begins to celebrate our 250th anniversary, I’m pleased to have been asked to write about George Washington’s leadership. As president, I found great comfort and inspiration in reading about my predecessors
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During a talk in Bozeman, Montana, last week, I was asked to give examples of when Hannah Arendt was wrong. The question is disarmingly simple. She was hardly infallible. She made mistakes.
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Philippe Sands’s 38 Londres Street is ostensibly an investigation into two notorious men—Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff—but its deeper subject is something far more unsettling: the astonishing durability of impunity. Sands has
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Summary: In this satirical and philosophical essay, Martina Moneke imagines “resurrecting” the 19th-century Whig Party as a model for today’s fractured American politics. She opens with a critique of the nation’s obsession with
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A great-grandson of Benito Mussolini has sparked controversy in Italy by defending the legacy of the fascist dictator in a new book, claiming that the regime was “not so bad” and that
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On the anniversary of the 1979 revolution that transformed Iran from a monarchy into an Islamic republic, the country finds itself haunted by striking historical parallels. Reporting highlighted by The Times (UK)
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Archaeologists have uncovered compelling evidence that the first humans to inhabit the High Arctic were not merely surviving at the edge of the world, but actively transforming it. Newly discovered archaeological sites
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In an age when corporate lifespans are often measured in quarters rather than centuries, Japan stands apart. Scattered across the archipelago are businesses that trace their origins back more than a thousand
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In the final weeks before her death in August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, did something almost unheard of for a senior royal. She spoke openly, on the record, to a foreign
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The first Marxist coalition government in Sri Lanka was formed by the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The Finance Minister of this government was LSSP
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From the moment a visitor stands at the foot of Sigiriya and looks up at its mist-veiled summit, a strange quiet seems to press down on the landscape. The sheer granite monolith,
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Pavan K. Varma’s The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River presents itself as a parable “for ordinary people,” but that description is almost aggressively misleading. This is not a gentle
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Half a century has passed since Concorde lifted off with paying passengers for the first time, yet the anniversary feels less like a celebration and more like a quiet admission of loss.
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A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to the descendants of unarmed civilians killed during a colonial-era massacre, in a ruling described
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Forty-seven years ago, on this day, the Islamic Revolution of Iran achieved victory under the leadership of Imam Khomeini, marking a historic turning point in the nation’s political, social, and cultural life.
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