The key to grand strategy | @wdjames.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-k...

The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing. Musica universalis | @derekturner.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/musi...

The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing. Musica universalis | @derekturner.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/musi...

Turkey’s return to great power status | Sumantra Maitra engelsbergideas.com/essays/turke...

Turkey’s return to great power status | Sumantra Maitra engelsbergideas.com/essays/turke...

I think I’ve been meaning to write this piece since about 2017 or 2018. Glad to have finally done so!

A community of choirs | @elisabethbraw.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/a-c...

Joseph Wright’s age of enlightenment | @paullay.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/jose...

A very nice thing: I find that an article I wrote for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social about what makes the French songbook so beguiling and so bonding is now also available as an audio piece. open.spotify.com/episode/4acC...

Joseph Wright’s age of enlightenment | @paullay.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/jose...

Trade wars are never solely about economics, as the Anglo-Irish tariff war of the 1930s reminds us. Ireland’s David and the British Goliath | @duncanweldon.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/irela...

Ralph Adams Cram’s king of America | Christian Ruth engelsbergideas.com/portraits/ra...

A brilliant essay by Duncan Weldon - why economic Goliaths don’t always win trade wars against their smaller adversaries:

Trade wars are never solely about economics, as the Anglo-Irish tariff war of the 1930s reminds us. Ireland’s David and the British Goliath | @duncanweldon.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/irela...

Great article: "China does not prioritise relations with Europe, but allows ties with European countries to fluctuate as a function of external variables. There is no sign of a grand plan to wrest Europe from the American orbit... Instead, Europe is treated as an extension of America." Quite right

Ralph Adams Cram’s king of America | Christian Ruth engelsbergideas.com/portraits/ra...

How the Oslo Accords unravelled | Colin Shindler engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...

Really enjoyed this read on @engelsbergideas.bsky.social: "what does China want from Europe? The reason why this is a difficult question to answer is that Beijing doesn’t necessarily have a clear answer itself." engelsbergideas.com/notebook/wha...

Artificial Intelligence must not be weaponised to downgrade ideas of artistic excellence founded on human creative genius, elitism and meritocracy. AI against the arts | Alexandra Wilson engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ai-...

Britain's intelligence networks of the First and Second World War could not have operated without the vital contributions of female agents. Secret networks behind enemy lines | John Raine engelsbergideas.com/reviews/secr...

I wrote about One Battle After Another by film buff extraordinaire Paul Thomas Anderson for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social. Is it arthouse? Is it an action movie to be enjoyed with popcorn? Is it a state-of-the-nation film - or a bit of a jape?

Paul Thomas Anderson at the movies | @murielzagha.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/paul...

Discussed my @engelsbergideas.bsky.social piece this morning on MSNBC

What China wants from Europe | @johndelury.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/wha...

Paul Thomas Anderson at the movies | @murielzagha.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/paul...

Moscow's planning for future military conflict is poorly understood in the West. How Russia sees the next war | @florencegaub.bsky.social and Andrew Monaghan engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...

The Himalayan country's national archives, filled with priceless ancient manuscripts from across South Asia, have survived earthquakes and revolutions, but may yet fall prey to neglect. Nepal’s ancient wonders | Arjuna Keshvani-Ham engelsbergideas.com/notebook/nep...

Britain’s elite needs a history lesson | @alastairbenn.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...

A crash is coming | David Roche engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-cra...

How not to win the Nobel Peace Prize | Peter Caddick-Adams engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-n...

Wonder and worry: dealing with uncertainty in contemporary history | Francis J. Gavin engelsbergideas.com/essays/wonde...

Tsukumogami are beings that arise when ordinary objects gain a spirit of their own. Their moral message? Treat your possessions well. Japan’s time of spirits | @drchrisharding.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/jap...

Tsukumogami are beings that arise when ordinary objects gain a spirit of their own. Their moral message? Treat your possessions well. Japan’s time of spirits | @drchrisharding.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/jap...

Wonder and worry: dealing with uncertainty in contemporary history | Francis J. Gavin engelsbergideas.com/essays/wonde...

How not to win the Nobel Peace Prize | Peter Caddick-Adams engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-n...

A crash is coming | David Roche engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-cra...

In such an age as this, history is our wisest guide, and to neglect her is to take the short path to defeat. My latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...

Britain’s elite needs a history lesson | @alastairbenn.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...

The Himalayan country's national archives, filled with priceless ancient manuscripts from across South Asia, have survived earthquakes and revolutions, but may yet fall prey to neglect. Nepal’s ancient wonders | Arjuna Keshvani-Ham engelsbergideas.com/notebook/nep...

The Palestinian question is still unanswered | @mpolymer1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

My latest on the Middle East . engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

The Palestinian question is still unanswered | @mpolymer1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

Moscow's planning for future military conflict is poorly understood in the West. How Russia sees the next war | @florencegaub.bsky.social and Andrew Monaghan engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...

The sublime talents of the wartime poet and writer Keith Douglas captured both the harrowing nature of conflict and the spirit of an England that once was, but is no more. Keith Douglas, an Englishman at war | Bryan Appleyard engelsbergideas.com/notebook/kei...

Wolfsburg, born as a utopian vision of German modernity, is a case study in how that model is running out of road. Will Wolfsburg become the next Detroit? | Katja Hoyer engelsbergideas.com/notebook/wil...

Belief in the living dead arose whenever faith wavered and fear reigned supreme. The curious case of corpse killings | @katherineharvey.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

Los Angeles, 1945: victory at a cost | @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/los...

The lure of Beaton’s sublime surfaces | @amwilson.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

Someone - I think it was @jwikeley.bsky.social – pointed out a while ago how different post-war English poetry might look if Douglas had lived.

The sublime talents of the wartime poet and writer Keith Douglas captured both the harrowing nature of conflict and the spirit of an England that once was, but is no more. Keith Douglas, an Englishman at war | Bryan Appleyard engelsbergideas.com/notebook/kei...