dictators

What, if anything, have dictators over the centuries had in common?

15 July 2023 9:00 am

Simon Kuper finds little to connect the strongmen of the past and present apart from their contempt for their own supporters

Latin America in crisis again

9 January 2021 9:00 am

It wasn’t so long ago that British readers, on hearing about the incompetence and corruption of Latin America’s political leaders,…

What does it really mean to have a tyrannical father?

24 October 2015 9:00 am

What was it like, asks Jay Nordlinger, to have Mao as your father, or Pol Pot, or Papa Doc? The…