"After only a few words, we were overcome by hilarity. Conversing in German seemed to us not only comical but also strangely liberating"

‘Charities operate in a world in which there are too few constraints and checks’

‘Pride of place in Emmanuel Macron’s presidential office goes to Le Rouge et le Noir. Does he recognise in himself the characteristics that enabled Julien Sorel to fly so close to the sun before he crashed and burned?’

‘In today’s courts, Cicero would prevail over Aquinas, who acquitted the Merchant of Rhodes for withholding information from customers’