Christians worried about commercialism have decades-old company
By Tom Holland
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge reviewed
By Tom Holland
He was the ideal role model for a newly urban and commercial society
By Tom Holland
Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today by John Tolan reviewed
By Tom Holland
The debt of the contemporary West to Christianity is more deeply rooted than many assume
By Tom Holland
The many declines and falls of the American Empire
By Tom Holland
Back in the mists of prehistory, when I was eight, dinosaur films followed a set pattern. The dinosaurs themselves would be cheerfully unpalaeontological; women would wear improbable outfits; volcanoes would explode. Then, in 1993, courtesy of Steven Spielberg, came a sea-change. Jurassic Park was that cinematic rarity: a science fiction film that succeeded in influencing […]
By Tom Holland
It thrived by killing off the opposition, says Bart Ehrman. But it also appealed to Rome’s enslaved masses
By Tom Holland
