In 1951, Yale University professor Hajo Holborn wrote a book — as it turns out, an autopsy — titled The…
When a state cannot reliably distinguish adults from children, every child-only safeguard becomes conditional. Schools, care homes, foster placements, and…
Arrogance run amok. It is the most apt comment to characterize Britain’s justice minister David Lammy’s new understanding of what…
Like an Ivy League university professor, Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, takes to the pages of Foreign Affairs to…
Prison is the closest thing we have to a truth serum. Most politicians, the moment they touch the floor of…
Italy gave the world Caravaggio, Verdi, and the sort of architecture that makes tourists weep into their gelato. A place…
Despite overwhelming evidence, the replacement of European societies remains — frustratingly — a contested concept. Across the continent, cities and…
Sweden has spent the past month debating a court ruling that has unsettled even a nation accustomed to difficult conversations…
If you want to know what a country will become, don’t ask a pollster — ask a headteacher. The corridors…
