Karl Marx, the founding father of modern hypocrisy
IN A 1982 letter to Michael Foot, Tony Blair wrote: ‘Reading Marx irreversibly altered my perception…
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The modern bureaucrat, turning gold into excrement
FROM the 13th century onwards, as Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt observed in his 1860 book The…
The light that medieval Siena can shine on modern life
IT WAS a time of darkness, so the enlightened ones said, when people were thick, uncouth and…
