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 ...

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 ...

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 ...