dictators
What, if anything, have dictators over the centuries had in common?
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
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?
What was it like, asks Jay Nordlinger, to have Mao as your father, or Pol Pot, or Papa Doc? The…