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Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and Muslims. ..

AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve. ..

As Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a. ..

Over the years Matthiessen, Harold ‘Doc’ Humes and George Plimpton would vie for credit as to who ‘invented’ the. ..

In a country plagued by corruption, China’s national college entrance exam, the gaokao, is remarkably clean. ‘Open. ..

As the journalist Dom Phillips came to see it, the deforestation of the Amazon was the work of a stupendously profitable. ..

China, which in the post-Cold War period was viewed as either lunch for American capital or an irredeemable dungeon, has. ..

The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that. ..

Trying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we can all recognise. He had a. ..

Given that the most widely accepted date for the start of the Wars of the Roses is 1455, it is unsurprising that the. ..

Who​ was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T. S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around? ...

Anti-communist​ dandy, scourge of Ivy League administrators, magazine chieftain, amanuensis to Joe McCarthy, father-. ..

Most of the characters in Marty Supreme believe their lives are a kind of movie, and when a character speaks of ‘. ..

Normally, being revealed as a hypocrite is kryptonite for a politician running for office. But Harris doesn’t know. ..