Two stories of young kings provide a surprisingly prescient lesson for politics today.

In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.

The most striking difference between “Las Meninas” and Mazo’s “Familia del pintor” is the juxtaposition of families depicted.

In recovering a superior science of human action, we will nourish a more reasonable politics. Cicero points the way.

A government’s primary obligation is to the native people.

I understand that by reading late in the night, I am transformed into what I am reading.

Popper’s falsification theory could help combat data-free ideas that undermine our societies.

It becomes difficult to distinguish civilisation from savagery when elements of both lie intermingled in our midst.

Britain, like Europe, is suffering from a spiritual decay which manifests in the deterioration of its built environment.

We are not made for lies.

To escape the cycle of hysterics, we need to recover an ancient approach to politics.

It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.