07/09/2021 - 1:07am

America’s empires always fail The withdrawal from Afghanistan was an inevitable tragedy

Douglas Murray

24.06

British imperialism didn’t destroy India Colonial rule brought relative peace to the subcontinent

Razib Khan

10.05

What the Mongols did for us The Golden Horde wasn't barbarous, it created the modern world

Razib Khan

07.04

The Tory playboy who toppled the toffs Iain Macleod was destined to be PM — and then fate caught up with him

Gavin Haynes

29.03

Antiracism is too middle-class An obsession with language ignores the material priorities of Britain’s minorities

Remi Adekoya

04.03

The woke battle for cultural imperialism The use of language to impose a worldview can easily become violent

Mary Harrington

03.03

Twilight of the American empire After years of liberal imperialism, the US has finally overstretched itself

Aris Roussinos

28.01

Why the West isn’t racist The Enlightenment gave us individual freedom — yet Kehinde Andrews blames it for anti-black bigotry

Ralph Leonard

07.01

Whose weird world are we living in? Politics and reality feel connected by only the thinnest of threads

Mary Harrington

31.12

Was the British Empire a curse? The Long Way Back: Margot Bennett sounds a warning that all such imperial projects are doomed

Matthew Sweet

01.10

The liberal case for empire Imperialism has a better record of defending minorities and promoting diversity than nation-states do

Ed West

12.08

Who will salute Trump’s man in Berlin? The President finally picks the right man for a job — yet Washington won't have it

Marshall Auerback