Dominique Moïsi is an eminent French international relations expert, a scholar trained in Paris now teaching at Kings College in London and Harvard. In The Triumph of Emotions — in one of several ...

Experts note that Russia could have been targeting Poland strategically to disrupt logistical support for Ukraine, given that Poland’s border regions are crucial transport arteries. The drones’ route ...

This book complicates that tapestry.” It does this by taking “children seriously as the authors of their own lives.” People told Gallagher that the sources for the story she wanted to write — children ...

Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The ERF was the centrepiece ...

In a preface, Gallup also emphasised the importance of the “split ballot” technique as a way of monitoring the impact of different ways of writing the survey questions (though not different kinds of ...

Francesca Wade’s elegant new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, is composed in two parts: the first, a relatively conventional biography in which the events of Stein’s life are interwoven with ...

About a third of the way into John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs — a book that sets Lennon and McCartney’s platonic love affair in the context of their lyrics, melodic lines and chord structures — ...

After a couple of weeks in Washington DC, my rueful report is that Trumpworld is even stranger close up. Arriving after the president ordered the army to take over the capital, we were met by the ...

Last night two of my closest friends and I bade each other goodnight in our traditional style: a hug, an exclamatory “darling” and a whispered, emphatic, “I adore you.” Sometimes these friends will ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s economic reform roundtable may not have met everyone’s hopes or expectations. But it did achieve three things. First, it put the issue of productivity front and centre of the ...