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    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Television
      What happens when TV intellectuals are given free rein

      ‘Simon Schama’s History of Now’ continues a tradition that is fast fading amid highly polished but predictable programming

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      Simon Schama: art versus the tyrants

      From Václav Havel to Ai Weiwei, writers and artists have led the way in the fight for human rights

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      US politics & policy
      American democracy surprises us all again

      The pieties of pundits bit the dust as voters went to the polls in support of abortion rights and electoral realities

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      Queen Elizabeth II
      Elizabeth II: an appreciation by Simon Schama

      The UK’s longest-serving monarch was so much more than a head of state — she was quintessential Britain

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      Salman Rushdie and the sacred right to irreverence

      Following the savage attack on the author, Simon Schama argues that disrespect is essential for democracy and that his friend’s fight for free expression is for us all

    • Saturday, 4 June, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast26 min listen
      FT Weekend: Tina Brown and Simon Schama on the royal family

      This weekend, we're marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a spirited discussion …

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      Simon Schama: when history is weaponised for war

      As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world

    • Saturday, 5 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin’s plan is failing in ways he could not have imagined

      The hardware of the Russian invasion may well be operational but the software of its narrative has seized up

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

      Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

    • Friday, 30 July, 2021
      Life & Arts
      The summer that changed my life

      From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them 

    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
      FT SeriesLetters from New York
      Simon Schama on America’s history wars, race and the flag

      The battles over the country’s founding myths did not begin with ‘woke’ activists, but have been there from the start

    • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Simon Schama on Napoleon, the horticultural strategist

      Ruth Scurr’s glorious biography gives the French emperor an unusually fresh look — revealing the conquest-junkie to be a keen botanist 

    • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
      The Royal Family
      Prince Philip: the royal yang to the Queen’s yin

      Duke of Edinburgh’s complementary role helped the British monarchy survive

    • Friday, 26 March, 2021
      The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 20212 min
      Bonnie Greer: ‘Americans have no idea about royalty’

      Simon Schama and Bonnie Greer on the British monarchy and its future

    • Friday, 8 January, 2021
      Donald Trump
      Donald Trump’s weaponised lies blew up in his face

      US Capitol mayhem was the culmination of years of winking at violence

    • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      Simon Schama on what makes John le Carré a writer of substance

      The spy fiction master ventured well beyond the shadows of espionage to become one of the most perceptive and enduring writers of his age

    • Friday, 30 October, 2020
      Trump vs Biden: essential reading
      Simon Schama: the two Americas

      LBJ, MLK and what the dramas of 1965 can teach a polarised nation

    • Friday, 18 September, 2020
      The best of the FT Weekend Festival 20202 min
      Simon Schama: 'Biden is surrounded by really good people'

      Is it finally Joe Biden's time? Anne Applebaum, Edward Luce and Simon Schama discuss

    • Friday, 4 September, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Simon Schama on art’s return to the barricades

      How the passionate creativity of the Romantics helped us to reimagine politics — and why we need their spirit now more than ever

    • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      ‘Summer’ concludes Ali Smith’s fine quartet

      The final season in the series completes this affecting chronicle of our uneasy times

    • Monday, 17 August, 2020
      Art for the soul: where culture, nature and wellbeing meet
      Storm King: an escape from New York for art lovers

      Simon Schama visits the upstate sculpture park and finds spectacular work that evokes the industrial and the natural

    • Friday, 12 June, 2020
      George Floyd protests
      History is better served by putting the Men in Stone in museums

      Changing attitudes towards racial injustice will affect who we consider tolerable and who intolerable to memorialise

    • Friday, 22 May, 2020
      Life & Arts
      The first thing I’ll do after lockdown is...

      Sailing the Med? Watching Arsenal? A hug? Christine Lagarde, Yuval Noah Harari, Carlo Rovelli and many more on their post-lockdown dream

    • Saturday, 25 April, 2020
      Edwin Heathcote
      When bookshelves are more informative than the books

      Lockdown videos give us a new way to judge character

    • Friday, 10 April, 2020
      Coronavirus: free to read
      Plague time: Simon Schama on what history tells us

      For millennia, epidemics have tested friendships, faith and society. But, amid the horror there is hope

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