Theunis Bates

“I have no way to defend my borders but to extend them.” That was the supposed justification given by Russian…

In the spring of 1940, my grandfather was patching up wounded British troops on the beaches of Dunkirk when a…

For the first time in nearly two years, my kids got to hug their grandpa this week. My wife and I are Britis…

Moving into a new house is always an education. In the past few months, I’ve learned more than I ever expecte…

The stories of sacrifice from 9/11 are almost endless. There were the passengers and crew on board Flight 93…

When Sunisa Lee won gold in the all-around gymnastics final at the Tokyo Olympics last week, her family and s…

If our fight against Covid-19 were a horror movie, then we’d probably be in that clichéd second-to-last scene…

To be a house hunter in 2021 is to live in a near-constant state of disappointment ...

The stuff of science fiction is once again becoming the stuff of reality. In a breakthrough study, researcher…

There’s a specific feeling I get whenever I fly into New York’s JFK airport and start to make the drive home…

It pains me to write this, but I’ve become obsessed with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s showdown with the r…

Ancient Crete. Seventeenth-century Bohemia. Revolutionary Cuba. The planet Gethen. Those are just some of th…

“This is not who we are.” That was the cry that went out from politicians of all stripes after last week’s d…

I have never seen two children so happy to go to school. When in-person teaching resumed in New York City in…

Call it a tale of two systems. In authoritarian China, where the pandemic first emerged, the coronavirus is …

“Of course, it’s 2020.” That was the first thought that entered my mind last week when a news alert lit up m…

Last weekend, I decided it was time to upgrade my wheels. For the past few years I’ve been driving a 1998 Ho…

Like so many other parents across America, I’m dreading the arrival of the new school year. What should have…

The Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws are in revolt. J.K. Rowling sparked outrage among many Harry Potter fans last…

Like many other people, I’m starting to have second thoughts about my urban love affair...

In the years leading up to A.D. 542, the Eastern Roman Empire— known by many today as the Byzantine Empire—w…

I live in a two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment that many realtors would generously describe as “oversize.” But a…

Afghanistan in 2020 is starting to look a lot like Vietnam in 1973. That year, with no input from South Viet…

Voters across the West have sent the same message again and again in recent years: We want the outside world…