Isabella Hammad is a British-Palestinian writer voted one of the Granta Best Young British Authors in 2023. She has published two novels, The Parisian and Enter...
What was the First World War about? What was it that persuaded millions of men to risk ending in gruesome pileups of shattered corpses? The mechanisation...
America and the world are on the verge of suffering four years of an unrestrained Trump presidency, little checked by the Republican-controlled Congress or the conservative-dominated...
“What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?” asked the American media academic Michael Socolow in the Conversation after Donald Trump won the presidential election....
Democracies have always presented themselves as beacons of human progress. In 431 BCE the statesman Pericles declared that Athens’s democracy was “the school for all Greece,”...
History will show it as one of the most far-sighted heritage decisions made by the Hawke government— Barry Cohen, The Life of the Party (1987) When...
The popularity of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, first published in 1991, revealed a big market in the West for stories of women growing up in China....
This time would be different. The lessons of the past learned. Cheats and clowns banished. Lies debarred, chaos expunged. Trust restored, law exalted. Instead of hollow...
In a book review a decade ago, I mocked academics’ penchant for running experiments with “mock juries” — people told to pretend to be jurors at...
When a negotiation consists of one side asking for money and the other offering it, there’s not really much doubt who has the whip hand. And...