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To quote Private Frazer in Dad’s Army, ‘We’re doomed, doomed!’ That seems to be the message of Paul Cooper’s eminently readable series of essays about how and why 14 civilisations rose to greatness and then collapsed. He begins with the Sumerians in the fourth millennium BC, at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf, and

Kathy F. Young, featured in the A.D. Guest View last April 25, wrote the article “Christian nationalism is a grave threat to America.” She implies that Hitler used the German

The surprising argument that Saul of Tarsus was born into bondage.

Ravenna is on Italys tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics. While locals go about their business, busloads of tourists slip in and out

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With 40 per cent of the capital already below sea level, some 10.6 million people in the inner city (and 30 million in the wider area) could face displacement from Jakarta.

The coming week in Vermont arts and entertainment.

<p>The Gospels tell us that it was relatively early in Jesus’ ministry when he sent out his apostles to preach and to heal.</p>

 

Our prompt to five extraordinary writers: “Write a love story.” The results—meet-cutes, time-traveling couples, blind dates gone wrong—remind us why stories of the heart are the backbone of fiction.