A bitter culture war in the fourth century shows we may not be as divided as we think
What the culture war from the eastern Roman Empire in the late fourth and early fifth century AD tells us about the one we are seeing today.
What the culture war from the eastern Roman Empire in the late fourth and early fifth century AD tells us about the one we are seeing today.
Statues have come under fire this year, prompting reflection on who’s service we want to memorialise and how to go about it.
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless
Alarmingly, the landscape of Britain, especially its capital, has assumed an aspect of alien, dystopian desolation. Its origin was three months of pandemic lockdown; the
Until recent times, the institution of slavery was almost universal, as was its handmaiden, the slave trade. Nearly all societies outside Western Europe practised it
In 2009 I flew to Ghana on the White House Press Corps “zoo plane” to interview Barack Obama. True to form No Drama Obama had
Sectarianism rarely ends well for anybody and it’s about time we began to remember that. What begins as people standing on different sides of a
There is something irrepressible in the human spirit that can be captured in moments of destruction. Throughout human history great acts of cultural effacement, whether
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