In Defence of Christians

Ben Sixsmith

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New France 2.0

In the 25th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the creation of Quebec’s first permanent farming settlements in the 1630s—and the death of Samuel de Champlain.

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Monogamy and the Making of Western Civilisation

The institution of monogamy in Classical Greece may have led to a host of phenomena that shaped the modern West: from individualism and abstract thinking to liberalism and democracy.

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A Violent History Obscured

South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang’s literary experimentation thwarts rather than advances her professed concern for the suffering of everyone, everywhere, all the time.

Brad Strotten

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Ukraine’s Terrible Choice

After three punishing years of war, the Trump administration is preparing to reduce a ravaged country to the status of US protectorate.

John Lloyd

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Donald Trump is often described as an imperialist and an expansionist and these terms are usually used interchangeably. Neither of these descriptions is meant to be flattering, but the larger problem is that they are imprecise.

Ronald W. Dworkin

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Were the Nazis Left-Wing?

The parallels between Nazism and communism complicate the standard left–right divide.

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