An exhibition on Anne Frank details the lessons we should learn from her story, but making the past relevant today is not that simple

An exhibition rightly highlights a much overlooked anniversary but misses some key points about its subject

The painter refused to call his drawings of disfigured soldiers art. Now they hang in the National Portrait Gallery

Russia may dominate world maps, but it is an economic pygmy compared with the developed nations as a bloc

Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, and his new administration want to save the Islamic Revolution, not reform it

The root problem with the UK economy is that neither investment generally nor manufacturing in particular are profitable

That elusive sense of a homeland, Heimat, Mounk found only when he was free not to feel Jewish

‘I have always held that everything to do with “interfaith dialogue” should be regarded with intense suspicion’

Richard Strauss tested bourgeois tolerance with Salome and Elektra but found it bad for business

The cult of eating out