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As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world
The hardware of the Russian invasion may well be operational but the software of its narrative has seized up
Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters
From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them
The battles over the country’s founding myths did not begin with ‘woke’ activists, but have been there from the start
Ruth Scurr’s glorious biography gives the French emperor an unusually fresh look — revealing the conquest-junkie to be a keen botanist
Duke of Edinburgh’s complementary role helped the British monarchy survive
Simon Schama and Bonnie Greer on the British monarchy and its future
US Capitol mayhem was the culmination of years of winking at violence
The spy fiction master ventured well beyond the shadows of espionage to become one of the most perceptive and enduring writers of his age
LBJ, MLK and what the dramas of 1965 can teach a polarised nation
Is it finally Joe Biden's time? Anne Applebaum, Edward Luce and Simon Schama discuss
How the passionate creativity of the Romantics helped us to reimagine politics — and why we need their spirit now more than ever
The final season in the series completes this affecting chronicle of our uneasy times
Simon Schama visits the upstate sculpture park and finds spectacular work that evokes the industrial and the natural
Changing attitudes towards racial injustice will affect who we consider tolerable and who intolerable to memorialise
Sailing the Med? Watching Arsenal? A hug? Christine Lagarde, Yuval Noah Harari, Carlo Rovelli and many more on their post-lockdown dream
Lockdown videos give us a new way to judge character
For millennia, epidemics have tested friendships, faith and society. But, amid the horror there is hope
Simon Schama looks at how the novelist reanimates both Cromwell and his world in the last volume of her trilogy
Seventy-five years after the camp’s liberation, remembrance is more important than ever
The historian examines why a comic game bird became a key part of the festivities
Shattering and profound, Life? or Theatre? is a great work by a prodigious talent murdered at Auschwitz
Liberal institutions are under attack from leaders who claim to embody the popular will
Leading writers including Simon Schama, Alastair Campbell, Janine Gibson and Lionel Barber reflect on our times
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