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Engelsberg Ideas is home to great writing from leading thinkers on history, culture and geopolitics, featuring essays as well as regular podcasts. https://engelsbergideas.com/
John Hersey and the horrors of Hiroshima | @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/portraits/jo...
John Hersey and the horrors of Hiroshima
The American journalist's account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath, told through the eyes of Japanese survivors, forced the world to reckon with the terrifying power of nuclear weapons.
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Rod Lurie's film provides a visceral, harrowing depiction of one of the most brutal battles of America's war in Afghanistan. The Outpost: a Homeric world of warfare | @paullay.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The Outpost: a Homeric world of warfare
Rod Lurie's 2020 American war film makes for a visceral and harrowing account of one of the most brutal battles of the war in Afghanistan.
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The history of modern warfare suggests that leaders who are ruthless towards failing ministers and generals are best able to keep their armed forces innovative on the battlefield. What Zelensky must learn from war leaders past | Peter Caddick-Adams engelsbergideas.com/essays/what-...
What Zelensky must learn from war leaders past
The history of modern warfare suggests that leaders who are ruthless towards failing ministers and generals are best able to keep their armed forces innovative on the battlefield.
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Who knows what tomorrow holds for the herring, a fish that has cut such a bright trail through history? An ode to the humble herring | @mathewlyons.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/an-o...
An ode to the humble herring
Who knows what tomorrow holds for herrings and the fleets that chase them, but what a bright trail the silver darlings have cut through history.
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Whoever comes out on top in the bitter clash between the country's political dynasties, it is ordinary Filipinos who will pay the price. The cost of the Philippines’ clan politics | Imran Shamsunahar engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The cost of the Philippines' clan politics
Whoever comes out on top in the bitter clash between the country's political dynasties, it is ordinary Filipinos who will pay the price.
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The rise in the number of classical music festivals testifies to a growing demand for the timeless beauty of the western musical canon, especially among the young. Classical music’s enduring allure | Elisabeth Braw engelsbergideas.com/notebook/cla...
Classical music's enduring allure
The rise in the number of classical music festivals testifies to a growing demand for the timeless beauty of the western musical canon, especially among the young.
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Orlando Gibbs on why Hollywood should now adapt Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...
The war in Iran is likely to accelerate a trend already underway in the Gulf: multi-alignment and strategic hedging. Why the Gulf states won’t side with America | Yoel Guzansky and Jesse R. Weinberg engelsbergideas.com/notebook/why...
Why the Gulf states won't side with America
The war in Iran is likely to accelerate a trend already underway in the Gulf: multi-alignment and strategic hedging.
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Faced with a more transactional and unilateral presidency in Washington, western nations are forging new partnerships to steward the US-led world order through geopolitical turbulence. How America’s allies can preserve the West | @wdjames.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...
How America's allies can preserve the West
Faced with a more transactional and unilateral presidency in Washington, western nations are forging new partnerships in an effort to steward the US-led world order through a time of geopolitical turb...
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Orlando Gibbs on the significance of the meeting between Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's Underworld, the death knell of the Iliadic dream. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...
Abandoned by its erstwhile American allies and outmanoeuvred by the Turkish government, can the Kurdistan Workers' Party move beyond armed struggle and adjust to new geopolitical realities? Why Kurdish militancy went into retreat | @hannahluci.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/why-...
Why Kurdish militancy went into retreat
Abandoned by its erstwhile American allies and outmanoeuvred by the Turkish government, can the Kurdistan Workers' Party move beyond armed struggle and adjust to new geopolitical realities?
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My latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social on how Poland and the UK, among other core US allies, are stepping up to preserve the existing order while Washington's leadership wavers. engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...
How America's allies can preserve the West
Faced with a more transactional and unilateral presidency in Washington, western nations are forging new partnerships in an effort to steward the US-led world order through a time of geopolitical turb...
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At the heart of Europe’s crisis is a neglect of the common good and the prerogatives of the state. Europe’s lost reason of state | @jackfdickens.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/eur...
Europe’s lost reason of state
At the heart of Europe’s crisis is a neglect of the common good and the prerogatives of the state.
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At the heart of Europe’s crisis is a neglect of the common good and the prerogatives of the state. My latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social — Europe’s lost reason of state:
Engelsberg Ideas@engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 2d agoAt the heart of Europe’s crisis is a neglect of the common good and the prerogatives of the state. Europe’s lost reason of state | @jackfdickens.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/eur...
The rise in the number of classical music festivals testifies to a growing demand for the timeless beauty of the western musical canon, especially among the young. Classical music’s enduring allure | Elisabeth Braw engelsbergideas.com/notebook/cla...
Classical music's enduring allure
The rise in the number of classical music festivals testifies to a growing demand for the timeless beauty of the western musical canon, especially among the young.
engelsbergideas.com
Orlando Gibbs on why Hollywood should now adapt Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...
Whoever comes out on top in the bitter clash between the country's political dynasties, it is ordinary Filipinos who will pay the price. The cost of the Philippines’ clan politics | Imran Shamsunahar engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The cost of the Philippines' clan politics
Whoever comes out on top in the bitter clash between the country's political dynasties, it is ordinary Filipinos who will pay the price.
engelsbergideas.com
It was in the Army of Africa that the future dictator fashioned his ill-defined vision of Spain's grandeur, and of his own destiny to salvage it. Franco’s formative years in Spanish Morocco | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/fra...
Franco's formative years in Spanish Morocco
It was in the Army of Africa that the future dictator fashioned his ill-defined vision of Spain's grandeur, and of his own destiny to salvage it.
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At the heart of Europe’s crisis is a neglect of the common good and the prerogatives of the state. Europe’s lost reason of state | @jackfdickens.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/eur...
Europe’s lost reason of state
At the heart of Europe’s crisis is a neglect of the common good and the prerogatives of the state.
engelsbergideas.com
It was in the Army of Africa that the future dictator fashioned his ill-defined vision of Spain's grandeur, and of his own destiny to salvage it. Franco’s formative years in Spanish Morocco | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/fra...
Franco's formative years in Spanish Morocco
It was in the Army of Africa that the future dictator fashioned his ill-defined vision of Spain's grandeur, and of his own destiny to salvage it.
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The war in Iran is likely to accelerate a trend already underway in the Gulf: multi-alignment and strategic hedging. Why the Gulf states won’t side with America | Yoel Guzansky and Jesse R. Weinberg engelsbergideas.com/notebook/why...
Why the Gulf states won't side with America
The war in Iran is likely to accelerate a trend already underway in the Gulf: multi-alignment and strategic hedging.
engelsbergideas.com
Faced with a more transactional and unilateral presidency in Washington, western nations are forging new partnerships to steward the US-led world order through geopolitical turbulence. How America’s allies can preserve the West | @wdjames.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...
How America's allies can preserve the West
Faced with a more transactional and unilateral presidency in Washington, western nations are forging new partnerships in an effort to steward the US-led world order through a time of geopolitical turb...
engelsbergideas.com
Orlando Gibbs on the significance of the meeting between Achilles and Odysseus in Homer's Underworld, the death knell of the Iliadic dream. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...
Abandoned by its erstwhile American allies and outmanoeuvred by the Turkish government, can the Kurdistan Workers' Party move beyond armed struggle and adjust to new geopolitical realities? Why Kurdish militancy went into retreat | @hannahluci.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/why-...
Why Kurdish militancy went into retreat
Abandoned by its erstwhile American allies and outmanoeuvred by the Turkish government, can the Kurdistan Workers' Party move beyond armed struggle and adjust to new geopolitical realities?
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The South is still beautiful, but likely to suffer severely in a century of climate extremes. It is time the continent rediscovered its northern soul. Is Europe’s future northern? | @alastairbenn.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/is-...
Is Europe's future northern?
The South is still beautiful, but likely to suffer severely in a century of climate extremes. It is time the continent rediscovered its northern soul.
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Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus is not the trickster of the Homeric poems. Orlando Gibbs explains why. 🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey audioboom.com/posts/893414...
The Gen Z protests against Modi's rule expose the inequality entrenched in India's political economy. The Billionaire Raj’s reckoning | James Crabtree engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...
The Billionaire Raj's reckoning
The Gen Z protests against Modi's rule expose the inequality entrenched in India's political economy.
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My new essay on Japan’s nostalgic prime minister
Engelsberg Ideas@engelsbergideas.bsky.social · last wk.Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to raise Japan’s game. But, given her reputation as a pioneer, she is remarkably backward-looking. Nostalgia hinders Takaichi’s vision for Japan | @billemmott.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/nosta...
🎧The EI Podcast: The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey Classicist and actor Orlando Gibbs speaks to Alastair Benn about the strangeness of this ancient epic. engelsbergideas.com/podcast/the-...
The alien world of Homer’s Odyssey
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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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to raise Japan’s game. But, given her reputation as a pioneer, she is remarkably backward-looking. Nostalgia hinders Takaichi’s vision for Japan | @billemmott.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/nosta...
Nostalgia hinders Takaichi's vision for Japan
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to raise Japan’s game. But, given her reputation as a pioneer, she is remarkably backward-looking.
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