Hope is in short supply these days, while despair and hate are enjoying an enormous surplus. To give an example, there are currently two types of stories that fill my news feed. The first are about politics and the perpetual horrors it unleashes on the world: there’s a new scandal every day, and war, protectionism, and nationalism are on the rise,
The period July to November this year marks the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele. In a war already overflowing with misery, Passchendaele remains a byword for unspeakable suffering; it was one of the most appalling campaigns of the First World War, claiming almost half a million casualties and inflicting lifelong physical and psychological
Just over a century ago, in August 1914, the major European nations plunged their peoples into one of the most disastrous conflicts in history. The First World War claimed at least seventeen million lives, destroyed the social and economic fabric of Western Europe, and played a vital role in the expansion of state power around the world. It is
China’s rise to the status of global economic power has invited enormous interest in its cultural and political heritage. Historians tend to be fascinated by China’s erratic economic progress and rich history of innovation, each of which have, at different times, both outpaced and lagged behind developments in Western Europe. In particular, many
Donald Trump’s decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan highlights once again the disastrous, persistent consequences of militarism and imperialism. However, rather than repeat the usual litany of horrors that are sure to result, I will instead recall a discussion of war by Trump’s literary opposite, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare can be
Hay escasez de esperanza hoy en día, mientras que tenemos un enorme exceso de desesperación y odio. Por dar un ejemplo, hay actualmente dos tipos de historias que llenan mi news feed . El primero se refiere a la política y los horrores perpetuos que desencadena sobre el mundo: hay un nuevo escándalo cada día y la guerra, el proteccionismo y el
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