‘Westerners’ have told themselves a story of their past dominated by a fluke in human history: the rise of a single religion, Christianity, to gain a monopoly over the vast majority of medieval Europe ...
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Before the war, Muhammad had been the most energetic of us. He wasn’t tall, but he never saw that as an obstacle.
Max Richter’s Sleep, made up of 204 continuous movements, plays for nearly eight and a half hours. This is not as ...
Despite a few halting steps towards devolving power in Britain, England itself remains a profoundly centralised ...
The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and ...
Two marches will assemble in central London tomorrow. One is championing the rights of Palestinians and commemorating ...
Circumstantial evidence (defective internal logic, uncontrolled tone, bizarreness for its own sake) suggests that ...
By now, a production of John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer presumes its own opposition. At the Teatro ...
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That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be ...
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