Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, the man who would become Pope Francis told his fellow cardinals about the Mysterium lunae. The ...

Joan Didion, Thomas Powers observed after she died aged 87 in 2021, is “almost brutally direct, but it’s never entirely clear ...

Embracing “drill, baby, drill” in rhetoric if not in practice could win the President round.

The eccentrics of the new right aren’t rebelling against our political regime – they are its twisted successors.

The decision follows a prolonged, torrid period in Scottish politics, in which the row over trans rights vs women’s rights ...

If the party cannot translate momentum into council seats, it risks being another noisy but inconsequential endeavour.

We should be chilled by Mangione’s alleged actions – but also by the nihilism in American society that drove him.

Perversely, considering the novel’s refusal to stop, The Unnamable arrived at the end of a beginning for Samuel Beckett, or ...

If America ever stops being the world’s leading power, then the dollar would also cease being the global reserve currency.

The IRA wielded 1916 to legitimise their own campaign of violence in the Troubles.

What is an inheritance? For the Welsh novelist Joe Dunthorne, the inheritance he received from his great-grandfather, ...

Law school doesn’t really teach you how to be a lawyer, but it certainly teaches you how to think like a lawyer. And part of ...