4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1291+ words) Editor's note: The Taiwan question is a key focus for China and the international community. China Daily is publishing a series of reports to track hot Taiwan-related topics and address disinformation from the Democratic Progressive Party administration. A fragmentary narrative…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (703+ words) History, when stripped of the pious humbug of the pedagogues, leaves little mystery as to how genuine empires do business. The trade of the authentic conqueror has always been a straightforward racket, requiring only three things: gunboats, sovereign decrees, and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1245+ words) For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent crime, and episodic outbreaks of deadly plagues — the dividends of unclean urban conditions, rotting food, fouled water, open sewage, and unchecked rats, fleas, and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (959+ words) Writing Art History Since 2002 Suzette Bell-Roberts: ‘Postcolonial?’ resists a purely chronological narrative; what does this disruption allow you to reveal about colonialism that a linear history cannot? Kieran Burns: There is a chronological thread, particularly from 1945 to the present, but…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (319+ words) PR.com Kent Goldings has completed a new book, "Chronicle of Civilizations: England," offering far more than a mere recitation of historical facts and dates This vivid survey invites readers to inhabit the lived experience of England across all its…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1185+ words) The West has mastered the technology of civilization but embraced the politics of barbarism, creating a modern medieval world where progress and regression coexist. For most people, the story of the medieval world was one of cramped cities, constant violent…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (570+ words) Tuesday 1 September 2026 This is an extraordinarily narrow conception of philosophy. It would exclude Nietzsche almost as readily as Foucault and would make rather uncomfortable reading for Socrates. Philosophy does not consist only in constructing systems. Sometimes its most important task…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (52+ words) Victor Davis Hanson, New Criterion on Monday, August 31, 2026 On the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming Mel Gibson film National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dallas,…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1659+ words) Mokhtar Benabdelkader, a 30-year-old engineer living in Adrar, about 1,500km from Algiers, remembers the stories his grandfather Mohamed told him as a child about the Blue Jerboa. He was not talking about the small, harmless desert rodent, but about the French…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (335+ words) The influence of the reparations movement has led to fallacious pronouncements on historic Quaker philanthropy. The only known image of Elizabeth Heyrick (1769-1831), the Quaker anti-slavery activist, who, in the 1820s, first popularised the idea of ‘immediate emancipation’ for slaves in the…...