Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and ...

Iza Ding teaches political science at Northwestern. The Performative State came out in 2022.

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them ...

Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic challenges facing Japan: high taxes, inflation, low wages and the cost of living.

Too much studying is harmful,’ Mao insisted, noting that few top scorers in the keju had gone on to accomplish great things.

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the ...

In​ a crowded conference room in January 2025, Hossein Marashi, secretary-general of the Executives of Reconstruction Party and brother-in-law of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, ...

Last month she decided to test her strong performance in the polls by calling a snap election on 8 February to Japan’s lower, ...

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art ...

Marguerite Caminat, the sister of the farm’s owner and a friend to artists, asked if she could employ Baya as a maid in Algiers: ‘She was given to me,’ she said. When not mopping the floor, Baya was ...

Good luck itself has a releasing effect on the spine, she was surprised to discover. She counted on some extra good luck and ...

It sometimes feels as if we shall never hear the last of the Mitfords. What Jessica, one of Deborah Devonshire’s ...