Who ruled the Middle East in 1900? Simon Sebag Montefiore narrates the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Saudi Arabia. 🎧The EI Podcast: The scramble for the Middle East audioboom.com/posts/895095...
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Sweden's four Tidö parties need an outright majority in Sunday's election to continue their programme of tougher policing, tighter migration and lower taxes. Why Sweden’s Tidö bloc needs a majority | PJ Anders Linder engelsbergideas.com/notebook/why...
Why Sweden's Tidö bloc needs a majority
Sweden's four Tidö parties need an outright majority in Sunday's election to continue their programme of tougher policing, tighter migration and lower taxes.
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Saxony-Anhalt is rich in history, but the last 30 years have been hard on it. The AfD's record win there has its roots in depopulation and industrial collapse. Germany’s flyover country takes its revenge | Oliver Moody engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ger...
Germany's flyover country takes its revenge
Saxony-Anhalt is rich in history, but the last 30 years have been hard on it. The AfD's record win there has its roots in depopulation and industrial collapse.
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🎧The EI Podcast: The scramble for the Middle East Simon Sebag Montefiore speaks to Jack Dickens about the struggle for power in the world’s most volatile region. engelsbergideas.com/podcast/the-...
The scramble for the Middle East
The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or ...
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James Marriott's polemic 'The New Dark Ages' mourns the passing of the print age. But it oversells the triumphs of mass literacy, and says too little about the costs. What did reading ever do for us? | @alastairbenn.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/what...
What did reading ever do for us?
James Marriott's polemic 'The New Dark Ages' mourns the passing of the print age. But it oversells the triumphs of mass literacy, and says too little about the costs.
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The cultural significance of the French school canteen | Muriel Zagha engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The cultural significance of the French school canteen
Beyond placing the enjoyment of food at the centre of French life, the school canteen is an outpost of the Republic where principles of secularism are enacted and preserved.
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Frederico De Roberto’s explosive portrait of a declining Sicilian dynasty deserves greater recognition. The other great Sicilian novel | @paullay.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The other great Sicilian novel
Frederico De Roberto's explosive portrait of a declining Sicilian dynasty deserves greater recognition.
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Archaeologist Brian Fagan's investigation into the battles between hunters and conservationists, and the common ground they share, is enlightening. The long history of hunting | Caroline Eden (@edentravels.bsky.social) engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
The long history of hunting
Archaeologist Brian Fagan's investigation into the battles between hunters and conservationists, and the common ground they share, is enlightening.
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How did Allen Lane change the world’s reading habits? Philip Hensher details the triumph of Penguin paperbacks. 🎧The EI Podcast – The novel in Britain: from cover to cover audioboom.com/posts/894840....
Germany must relearn the language of power-politics | Peter Sies engelsbergideas.com/essays/germa...
Germany must relearn the language of power-politics
To protect Europe from Russian aggression, Germans must resolve a tension that lies the heart of their modern national identity: a clash between the ideals of ‘Never Again Fascism’ and ‘Never Again Ge...
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Is conservative modernism the way forward for the right? | Michael Lucchese engelsbergideas.com/reviews/is-c...
Is conservative modernism the way forward for the right?
Anglo-American politics cries out for something better than the demagoguery and AI slop that dominate right-wing discourse. Conservative modernism offers a serious, literate alternative.
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Hannah Lucinda Smith on Vladimir Putin’s influence in the Balkans. 🎧The EI Podcast: Journeys in Europe’s grey zone audioboom.com/posts/894508...
Jared Diamond's survey of leaders through history underrates the degree to which evaluating leadership is a subjective art. Judging leadership is not a science | Marc Levinson engelsbergideas.com/reviews/judg...
Judging leadership is not a science
Jared Diamond's survey of leaders through history underrates the degree to which evaluating leadership is a subjective art.
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The continent's leading powers must revive their old imperial nodes and networks. Europe’s overseas possessions could be a major global asset | Sumantra Maitra engelsbergideas.com/notebook/eur...
Europe's overseas possessions could be a major global asset
The continent's leading powers must revive their old imperial nodes and networks.
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The end of Romanitas and the coming of the English | @mathewlyons.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
The end of Romanitas and the coming of the English
In the centuries after the retreat of the Roman Empire in the West, the Britons who had thought themselves the inheritors of Rome were overcome by Germanic incomers, a story of migration and insularit...
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Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the past. The battle to bring General de Gaulle to the screen | Julian Jackson engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-b...
The battle to bring General de Gaulle to the screen
Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the past.
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Philip Hensher on The Guardian’s list of the 100 greatest novels. 🎧The EI Podcast – The novel in Britain: from cover to cover audioboom.com/posts/894840...
Far from being the 'Sick Man of Europe', the late Ottoman Empire witnessed a period of extraordinary political adaptation. An Ottoman age of experiments | Daniel Neep engelsbergideas.com/reviews/an-o...
An Ottoman age of experiments
Far from being the 'Sick Man of Europe', the late Ottoman Empire witnessed a period of extraordinary political adaptation.
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What is a trial for? Is it enough simply to establish guilt, or must that guilt then be communicated to the wider world? The struggle to capture the Nuremberg Trials | @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...
The struggle to capture the Nuremberg Trials
What is a trial for? Is it enough simply to establish guilt, or must that guilt then be communicated to the wider world?
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🎧The EI Podcast – The novel in Britain: from cover to cover Philip Hensher speaks to Alastair Benn about his new book, ‘A History of the Novel in Britain’, a stylish and very personal survey of a great tradition. engelsbergideas.com/podcast/the-...
The novel in Britain: from cover to cover
The EI Podcast brings you weekly conversations and audio essays from leading writers, thinkers and historians. Hosted by Alastair Benn and Paul Lay. Find the EI Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or ...
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On his quest to reimagine historic buildings, the French art collector François Pinault has found a remarkable partner in the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The Bourse de Commerce’s rebirth | @agnescpoirier.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The Bourse de Commerce's rebirth
On his quest to reimagine historic buildings, the French art collector François Pinault has found a remarkable partner in the Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
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Writing in @engelsbergideas.bsky.social, Hoover's Ziyi "Emily" Wang reads the Trump administration's approach to NATO through nineteenth-century European history, arguing that transactional diplomacy is a trap for the country practicing it.
The price of Trump's transactional diplomacy
Diplomatic deals based on the pursuit of short-term interests tend to be short-lived.
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‘This was not just a civil war. This was a proxy war.’ Hannah Lucinda Smith explains how many of Europe’s most severe crises have their roots in the Syrian Civil War. 🎧The EI Podcast: Journeys in Europe’s grey zone audioboom.com/posts/894508...
The aspirations of modern China are rooted in President Xi's historical fictions combined with Marxist beliefs, a Leninist mentality and fervent nationalism. A world captured by China | Michael Sheridan engelsbergideas.com/reviews/a-wo...
A world captured by China
The aspirations of modern China are rooted in President Xi's historical fictions combined with Marxist beliefs, a Leninist mentality and fervent nationalism.
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Frances A. Yates' history of the art of memory reveals the costs of literacy. The lost art of memory | Paul Lay engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The lost art of memory
Frances A. Yates' history of the art of memory reveals the costs of literacy.
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For a declining Russia, its Baltic exclave is a bridge too far. Kaliningrad: the slow retreat from Russia’s burden | Daniel Peris engelsbergideas.com/essays/kalin...
Kaliningrad: the slow retreat from Russia's burden
For a declining Russia, the Baltic exclave is a bridge too far.
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‘This was not just a civil war. This was a proxy war.’ Hannah Lucinda Smith explains how many of Europe’s most severe crises have their roots in the Syrian Civil War. 🎧The EI Podcast: Journeys in Europe’s grey zone audioboom.com/posts/894508...
Some in Moscow believe the country has entered into a new Thirty Years War with the western powers. Russia is mobilising again | Andrew Monaghan engelsbergideas.com/notebook/rus...
Russia is mobilising again
Some in Moscow believe the country has entered into a new Thirty Years War with the western powers.
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The West has long drawn on Asia's culture and philosophy to shape its own notions of 'lifestyle'. Japanese parenting is another rich vein of inspiration. How Japan raises its children | Christopher Harding engelsbergideas.com/reviews/how-...
How Japan raises its children
The West has long drawn on Asia's culture and philosophy to shape its own notions of 'lifestyle'. Japanese parenting is another rich vein of inspiration.
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The rising antagonism between Israel and Turkey could lead to a catastrophic conflict, transforming the balance of power across Eurasia. The coming Turkish-Israeli struggle for supremacy | Sumantra Maitra engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The coming Turkish-Israeli struggle for supremacy
The rising antagonism between Israel and Turkey could lead to a catastrophic conflict, transforming the balance of power across Eurasia.
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