A little history of the medieval horse | @nicmorton.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/a-li...

How Milei made austerity popular | Julieta Casas engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how...

Pier Paolo Pasolini's vision of the Eternal City was far from an aesthete's fantasy. His Rome was a real place, at once poetic and squalid, which he captured with a cartographer’s eye. Pasolini’s Rome | Ian Thomson engelsbergideas.com/notebook/pas...

The tragedy of Zelensky’s Ukraine | Owen Matthews engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

Palestine 36’s distorted history | Christopher Silvester engelsbergideas.com/reviews/pale...

Loved writing this. So many characters and legal history to capture.

Russia's insatiable demand for bodies to feed the meatgrinder of its war on Ukraine has a real and tragic human cost for the Global South. Here @munira.bsky.social in @engelsbergideas.bsky.social describes deceit and exploitation in Africa, South Asia and beyond. engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

The nature of the Japanese language presents fascinating challenges to the development of artificial intelligence. Japan’s LLM language barrier | @drchrisharding.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/japan...

In the northernmost corner of Denmark, the painter Anna Ancher made light her lifelong muse. Anna Ancher’s language of light | @amwilson.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/anna...

The German war hero was an aesthete who sought to be heard only by those who might be willing to listen. The aesthetics of Ernst Jünger | Jaspreet Singh Boparai engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

The Turkish president's ongoing crackdown against political opponents has left his challengers in disarray, giving him a free hand to continue reshaping the country in his own image. Erdogan’s new order | Hannah Lucinda Smith engelsbergideas.com/notebook/erd...

The philosopher Michael Oakeshott reminds us that historical myth-making is at the heart of politics. On the uses of a legendary past | Daniel Skeffington engelsbergideas.com/essays/on-th...

The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials | @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-l...

The annual conferences held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reveal a worldview that is dependent on continued confrontation with the West. Inside the mind of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard | Kasra Aarabi & Saeid Golkar engelsbergideas.com/essays/insid...

I am delighted to announce that my chapter on espionage in Central Asia and the Great Game has been published as part of this wonderful collection, ‘Spies in History’. It will be up on @engelsbergideas.bsky.social soon. A big thank you to @paullay.bsky.social and Lars Molin for the opportunity.

I am delighted to announce that my chapter on espionage in Central Asia and the Great Game has been published as part of this wonderful collection, ‘Spies in History’. It will be up on @engelsbergideas.bsky.social soon. A big thank you to @paullay.bsky.social and Lars Molin for the opportunity.

The trafficking networks sustaining Russia’s war of attrition | Munira Mustaffa engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language. Wittgenstein’s great silence | Bryan Appleyard engelsbergideas.com/reviews/witt...

The craft of John le Carré | Malcolm Forbes engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...

The traffic lights of today have come a long way from the mechanical, gas-powered device first unveiled in London almost 160 years ago. But will they survive in a world of driverless cars? How the traffic light changed the world | Keith Lowe engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-t...

With the entry of Timor-Leste, ASEAN has gained a tiny new democracy to join its diverse grouping of one-party states, absolute monarchies and military juntas. Why Timor-Leste joined ASEAN | Imran Shamsunahar engelsbergideas.com/notebook/why...

The Locarno Pact’s enduring legacy | Patrick O. Cohrs engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-l...

As 'Islam' rose from a personal act of submission to an ideology, it eclipsed the very divinity it sought to serve. Modern Islam’s loss of theology | Fitzroy Morrissey engelsbergideas.com/reviews/mode...

I've written a piece for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social on the sources of grand strategic ideas. Best enjoyed over the weekend with a brew ☕ Thanks to @jackfdickens.bsky.social, @paullay.bsky.social, and the EI team for publishing.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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?

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...