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We can’t have everything at once: universal payments, ever-rising guarantees, low taxes, and balanced books.

Because if you’re going to dramatise 1066, the last thing you should do is make

The myths remember the age of heroes. The swords, quietly, tell us how those heroes

If you hand humans almost anything vaguely round, sooner or later they’ll start kicking, throwing,

For most people, the Russian Civil War is still about Reds and Whites. But on

Nietzsche was not naïve. He knew that his lectures would not prompt an overnight reversal

Knights and samurai were more than duelists and poets. They were administrators, revenue managers, and

From Portugal to Russia, the Napoleonic Wars reshaped Europe—and left behind landscapes where the past

In the summer of 1845, a clammy fog settled over Ireland. Rains came more often

What remains is not the tunic or the pyre but the bow and arrows gifted