People of my age have lived long enough to see the English language spoken and written in ways that were little short of ...
Jeffrey Rosen contends, “Jefferson construed the Constitution strictly to limit federal power” while “Hamilton construed the Constitution liberally to expand” it.
People of my age have lived long enough to see the English language spoken and written in ways that were little short of hanging offences in ...
The banished prince is in a forest. It’s night and cold: he lies beneath a tree. Since he’d once acted wrong he feels embarrassed until he falls asleep, and dreams that he is ...
Ireland might only be slightly larger than Tasmania, but two weeks is barely enough to scratch the surface of the Emerald ...
The 'death of the introspective male novel' has been greatly exaggerated — see Karl Ove Knausgaard’s newest nine-volume, 6,000-page meditation on the misery of being alive ...
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Filip Reyntjens and his colonial hangover

There are many ways to illustrate the lingering grip of colonial arrogance, but few are as undiluted, and as unmistakably absurd as the behaviour of certain European academics who still imagine that ...
Silver pennies depicting William (left) and Harold (right)(Pippa Pearce/© The Trustees of the British Museum) On October 14, 1066, William the Conqueror (r. 1066–1087) defeated the last Anglo-Saxon ...