Bush and advised him not to stop now, but to move on to Damascus and Tehran. Yet the US victory had an unintended but ...
Drawings by Cy Twombly, viewed from the sun-scorched clifftops of Casa Malaparte. The artist’s flight from the mid-century ...
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A serious fall of about 40 feet while leading an ice-climb left Mark with a permanent scar on his head. His judo training in falling probably saved his life on this occasion, but he gave up the sport ...
The classicist Joseph Bryant explains the importance of Elvin’s newly discovered 2007 Preface to the PRC edition of Pattern of the Chinese Past, setting out the social-historical ontology that informs ...
This background of demobilization helps explain why support for Sinn Féin proved to be so brittle over the past year.
This background of demobilization helps explain why support for Sinn Féin proved to be so brittle over the past year.
Hezbollah ceases its attacks on Israel and withdraws its fighters to north of the Litani River. Any Hezbollah military bases ...
Comprador elites clamped down on progressive currents inside Pakistan while aiding America’s endless wars abroad. In the 1980s, Pakistan joined the US-financed ‘Jihad’ against the Afghan government, ...
There was a Soviet joke in circulation some time ago, which gains point with every year that passes—Question: What is the greatest problem facing the President of the United States? Answer: Is it ...
“It is a very difficult country to move, Mr. Hynband, a very difficult country indeed, and one in which there is more disappointment to be looked for than success.” Disraeli, 1881. the last General ...
The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...