Reading Time: 3 minutes Recognizing the devastating consequences of allowing the COVID-19 lockdown to go on indefinitely, Austria is gingerly moving forward
Tag: Europe
Brexit’s potential for unintended consequences
Reading Time: 3 minutes How about Scottish independence and Irish unification, just to start the conversation?
How Ireland stayed neutral in a world at war
Reading Time: 3 minutes Under the leader ship of Eamon de Valera and with a very small army, virtually no aerial capability and little naval service, Ireland was a sitting duck in the Second World War
The unsung heroes of Waterloo
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Longest Afternoon, by historian Brendan Simms, provides depth, nuance and new insight
Human spirit has the strength to tear down walls
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many walls remain in the world, including physical ones and those of racism, sexism and economic injustice
The failure of an American president to compromise
Reading Time: 3 minutes Woodrow Wilson failed to accept the limitations and checks explicit in the American democratic system
Endeavour’s voyage of enlightenment added a hemisphere to the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes And, according to author Peter Moore, the endeavour attitude is characterized by dreaming of our better angels, not by acquiring more stuff
The unwelcome consequences of the collapse of empires
Reading Time: 3 minutes The demise of the German Hohenzollerns led to Hitler, while the collapse of the Austrian Habsburgs gave rise to malignant nationalism
Rhodes cultural policy is a template for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Greeks believe that supporting the arts and culture is not a luxury but an investment in human progress
The abysmal scorecard of socialist revolutions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Real communism has failed repeatedly to provide better living conditions. Why do countries like Venezuela persist?