Continental leaders are fond of using “Anglo-Saxon” as a synonym for “free-market.” The implication, of course, is that free markets are not only ruthless and cold-hearted, but foreign, too. In a word ...

Eight hundred years ago next month, English noblemen forced King John to sign the Magna Carta. It’s still having amazing effects on the world today. The Magna Carta helped usher in government with a ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...

Long before it became the top exporter of brooding BBC actors or steamed puddings, the United Kingdom was simply a cold, rocky island off the coast of Europe. It wasn’t until the arrival of ...