For @readliberties.bsky.social I wrote about the favorite writer of Europe's political elites: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Europe’s New Court Intellectual

The name Giuliano Da Empoli might not mean much to American readers, but in Europe the Swiss-Italian writer has established himself as one of the continent’s most fêted political and intellectual comm...

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Just delighted to talk with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social (whose own recent book on Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is excellent) about close reading for the Required Reading podcast. He's a fantastic interviewer and conversationalist. Listen! Share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Dan Sinykin - Close Reading

Podcast Episode · Required Reading from Liberties · 02/09/2026 · 36m

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From Copenhagen, Morten Høi Jensen examines the paternalistic impulse that governs Denmark’s postcolonial relationship with Greenland, and what the territory means to Denmark’s political elite. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

What Does Greenland mean to Denmark? — The Dial

Trump and the 800,000-square-mile island many Danes would prefer to forget.

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Wrote a little something for Mann’s 150th birthday, which is today. Alles Gute, Tommy!

Engelsberg Ideas@engelsbergideas.bsky.social · last yr.

One of the greatest European writers, Thomas Mann, born 150 years ago, dedicated his life to the pursuit of literary form. He left a monumental legacy. Thomas Mann’s cathedrals in prose | @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/tho...