Eliding the means while embracing the end: in classical rhetoric, the passage between the two is effected by enthymeme, whose ...

Brzezinski supported Détente, albeit with mounting tactical criticisms, until the mid-1970s. As I set out, he was seen as a ...

Looking narrowly at the strong balance sheets of the leading hyperscalers – Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet – the AI boom ...

In Mary Gaitskill’s 1997 short story ‘Orchid’, two characters approaching middle age encounter each other on the street in Seattle. Margot is a social worker, Patrick a former actor turned ...

In 1975 he circulated a small chapbook, Blues to Be Read Someday, which features a version of the opening chapter of his ...

Politically, however, impunity is not, as Plato suggests, something we can simply dismiss. It is a very bad state of affairs ...

Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. Nicolas Maduro has been ...

For me, the single most beautiful room of the twentieth century is the underground hall of Mayakovskaya Metro Station in the centre of Moscow, which was designed in 1936 and opened in 1938. Named ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...