The past isn’t a script set down in stone
Vandalizing public spaces under the delusion that such acts make yesterday a better today is sad-sack politics that fosters democratic weakness…
At 90, Thomas Sowell remains one of a kind
As a libertarian conservative, he’s a minority in the economics profession. Stir in the fact that he’s Black and you get a rare bird indeed…
The Congo’s great liberation turned into abject failure
How great plans quickly descended into decades of dictatorship, corruption, kleptocracy and violence…
The Habsburgs: Rise and fall of Europe’s premier dynasty
They were canny, enduring and keen on expansion. In the end, however, the empire couldn't survive the First World War…
Digging for the bones of a lost Irish hero
Red Hugh O’Donnell was the kind of historical figure who often fires imaginations…