30 Mar 2021 - 1:05am

What if Reagan had been murdered? A successful assassination attempt could have precipitated an eternal Cold War

Dominic Sandbrook

20.03

The populist spirit of the Paris Commune One hundred and fifty years ago, revolutionaries were far more interested in democracy than feminism and Marx

Robert Tombs

16.02

President Xi will never accept defeat The Chinese leader's turbulent childhood may explain his ruthless desire for order

Ian Birrell

02.02

What America can learn from Russia Spiralling addiction, inequality and an oligarch class can pave the way for authoritarianism

Daniel Kalder

25.11

Renounce Trump and redeem yourself Throughout history, confessing that you have wasted years of your life on a fraud takes guts

Dorian Lynskey

12.11

How to resist the new totalitarianism Those who fled Communist regimes for the West are hearing terrifying echoes from the past

Niall Gooch

30.10

Scotland is leading the way to totalitarianism A bill brought forth by the SNP aims to police what citizens say at home

Rod Dreher

15.09

Did the French Revolution cause Nazism? If Louis XVI had hung onto his throne, Europe wouldn't have been overrun by tyranny

John Lewis-Stempel

24.07

Who paved the way for the populists? Anne Applebaum's book ignores the real drivers of dissatisfaction with liberal democracy

James Bloodworth

22.07

A cautionary tale for today’s ‘woke’ movement A superb film about the NYT man who lied for Stalin casts light on today's cultural convulsions

John Gray

13.07

The Left’s shameful silence on China The lack of outrage over the regime's behaviour betrays a deep hypocrisy and lack of principle

Paul Embery

10.07

The awkward truth about Srebrenica A quarter of a century ago, the UK enabled a genocide to take place. Are we doing it again?

James Bloodworth