Tag: heritage

The Vanishing Anglo-Saxon

There is a peculiar rule in modern Anglophone public life: Every people can have a past, except the one that built the country.

The Queen and I

It’s no wonder that those still loyal to the House of Pahlavi call her mādar Eran—Mother of Iran.

Dying Beauties: On Saving Romania’s National Architecture

Streets in Bucharest are lined with decaying neo-Brâncovenesc buildings. Instead of restoration, city-planners are heaping rubbish upon rubbish, building the same junk that has ruined cities from one end of Europe to the other.