Tom Nairn is Research Professor in the Politics Department of Durham University and was a Professor of Nationalism and Social Diversity at Austrailia's RMIT 2002 - 2010
It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans even occupy the same world, wrote Robert Kagan in the Hoover Institutions Policy Review (reprinted in the August issue
I no longer recall the name of the village. On a sunny afternoon in June, 1977, somewhere in Somerset or Devon, we ended there by accident, after taking a wrong
The filmed version of J.R.R. Tolkiens epic novel The Lord of the Rings is a strange example of cultural resurrectionism. Like a tribal mythology returned from beyond
Many commentators have observed the striking change of temper in the USA after 11 September. A forceful re-animation of a sense of community (most evident in Rudy Giulianis New
Aeneas was praying and holding on the altar when the prophetess started to speak: “Blood relations of Gods, bel Trojan, son of Anchises, the way down to Avernus is easy.
For thirty years, Hugh Brody has lived, worked with and reported on hunter-gatherers. His work is an attempt to communicate the profound difference of their way of life from urban
Across Britain, Tony Blairs Labour government has aroused disappointment among its supporters and hatred among its opponents. Yet it retains an unprecedented opinion poll lead. In Pariah Kingdom, a