Why would Dante equate Adam, an everyday opportunistic counterfeiter, with Sinon, the man who betrayed Troy? It seems ...

As befits a country at the crossroads of Europe, through which Napoleon, Charles X of Sweden, Hitler’s Wehrmacht and, of course, Stalin’s Red Army trampled, Vilnius is a city of ghosts. Before the ...

William McKinley, the victorious Republican candidate, received contributions worth more than $16 million (about $600 million in today’s money). McKinley’s chief fundraiser, Mark Hanna, raised more ...

The country with the most Nobel Prize-winners in economics is calculating “protectionism” as the amount of exports to the US minus the amount of imports divided by that amount of exports. For the EU, ...

Ireland is not alone in experiencing a housing crisis. Compared with our continental neighbours, anglophone countries can’t seem to build enough homes – at any price – quickly in places where people ...

We are heading into a trade war. That’s what the United States wants and that’s what the world will get. In 2025 it will become increasingly obvious that you can’t have a trade war without a capital ...

One of the strangest aspects about the new programme for government is its failure to scrutinise population dynamics. On page 106 the programme states: “Ireland’s population is growing rapidly. By ...

In tune with our always-on age, the coming American recession will be live-streamed on Instagram. Every small change in consumer confidence and business sentiment will be videoed, shared, commented on ...

Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian media analyst declared “the medium is the message”. He was talking about an invention such as TV and politicians on TV in the 1950s. Whoever mastered the TV medium could ...

The French left share this view. Both the worker left and nationalist right see the world through a Marxist lens: if capital is worried, workers have to be doing better. Both see the economy as a ...

Although it is particularly egregious, the canal episode isn‘t an isolated incident. GeoDirectory, the data company used by An Post, has estimated that 14,500 residential and commercial properties lie ...