Zachary Karabell is a contributing writer to Book Review and the author of several books, including "Parting the Desert" and "The Last Campaign." For most Americans, the word “empire” has a distinctly ...

This is the report delivered by Tom Scripps, the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally. To ...

Though I’m no monarchist, I can’t help but admire Queen Elizabeth II. The old girl had a job to do, and she’s been doing it — with discipline and dignity — for 70 years. So, I was at least a little ...

Re “In Modern Imperialism, U.S. Needs to Walk Softly,” Commentary, July 15: It was not long ago that Max Boot was using England’s colonial efforts in India as a shining example of what the U.S. should ...

The uproar over the tweet posted by Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya has revealed the hypocrisy of the democratic pretensions of the ruling establishment, and its readiness to resort to ...

Doubtless kindness lay behind Penguin’s absence of response to The Critic’s repeated requests for a review copy for me of this book. My request also failed, but I have gone out and bought a copy, and ...

A shot of magnifier glass over map. Looking, searching, research information and traveling Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful ...

There are few things Republicans love more than harkening back to the American Revolution and 1776 — whether it’s in defense of their right to own high-powered assault rifles, to storm the Capitol in ...

Do nations and civilizations grow out of the moral mire of military conquests, killings of innocent people, political cruelty and subjugation by imperialism? For more than 800 years, India as a Moghul ...

On a cloud-spackled Sunday last June, protesters in Bristol, England, gathered at a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader on whose watch more than eighty thousand Africans were ...

This article contains mild spoilers for the first five episodes of Around The World in 80 Days. While Jules Vernes’ classic novel Around The World In 80 Days has long been celebrated for its depiction ...

Journalist Sanghera follows up Empireland, his study of how Britain was shaped by its imperial past, with a comprehensive if occasionally off-key look at imperialism’s legacy abroad. Sanghera aims to ...