I’m Not There, Todd Haynes’s new movie about Bob Dylan, and Jane Fonda’s guest of honour appearance at the Viennale film festival, show that those who never knew the 1960s now view them as radical and exciting

Heroism has always been part of Vietnam’s history since it fought for centuries for independence and unity. But more than two-thirds of all Vietnamese were born after the end of the last war in (...)

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, at 83, has outlived Ian Smith, the final white leader of Rhodesia, who died last month. In 1980 Mugabe began with a working democracy, a sound infrastructure and a healthy economy. Inflation is now the highest in the world; there is no work and little food – and what is available is used to control the remaining (...)