Islam is the engine of world history
The religion may have transformed every corner of the globe, but it was also radically changed in the process
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The interwar years were as bewildering as the present
Alwyn Turner’s new history reassures us that the past is not, as many imagine, any cosier or more patriotic than…
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How the Soviet Union got over Stalin – or thought it did
His successors proclaimed a more liberal socialism. But was it ever real?
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Europe’s American Dream has become a nightmare
Britain and the continent have withered under US protection
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The dead dream of the millennium
Our century started as it meant to go on: with broken promises
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When Trotsky took on Keir Starmer
A century ago, the original contradiction of the Labour party was already tearing it apart
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The power of print
Britain’s weeklies have always been more than journalism – they are a battleground of ideas
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How not to talk about capitalism
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
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