Tennis is now easier to pick up than ever. “But its real advantage over other sports is what happens when you keep on playing,” Alexandra Moe wrote in 2025.

Peter the Great's quest to westernise Russia took inspiration from Swedish institutions while dismissing the notion of a literate civil society that animated and sustained them. Peter the Great put Russia in a Swedish uniform | Kristian Gerner engelsbergideas.com/essays/peter...

In the 16th century, Sweden’s rulers forged a fiscal-military state capable of projecting power across the Baltic Sea, launching a quest for empire that combined national glory with dynastic self-assertion. Sweden’s age of conquests | Mats Hallenberg engelsbergideas.com/essays/swede...

After years when the main uncertainty introduced by Trump was on the political level, we are now seeing a real impact on the working level of military capabilities, @rikefranke.bsky.social writes.

A weird true thing about Britain: neither wealth nor income inequality is actually increasing. Income inequality has been static for more than 20 years. No one believes it, though. More, from a book on the largest study on UK inequality in decades, here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-b...

"The masculinity that the right aspires to is a caricature of itself, exaggerating men’s crudest impulses to spite feminist criticism of toxic masculinity. It’s brawn over brains… It’s perverse stoicism… And of course it’s obsessed with the size of its own dick."

My wife is reporting to me that on Threads there’s a huge fight happening about pet owners who say Mother’s Day is also for pet moms

Yes...and perhaps he's enjoying the exploits of southside samurai.

WWI seapower mindset applied to 21st century airpower. Look, if I can blame something on AT Mahan, I will.

I have a piece up at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-from...

The Hoover administration is perhaps history's greatest demonstration of the fact that you can't run government like a business. He was an extremely successful businessman who followed both fiscal and management orthodoxies to a T as president, and people ended up living in tents.

"What we need now is to fight. What we need now are positive answers to the problems that Woke 1 unearthed but did not resolve. What we need is to embrace power and to embrace responsibility for the exercise of that power." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

🧵 on books.

"If there is a lesson from this bit of history, it’s that it is possible to achieve the objectives of your campaign and still lose the war—and you’re more likely to do so if you’re not thinking rigorously about why you’re fighting the war and what you want to gain from it."

It was chaos inside the Washington Hilton ballroom, but not for one man who stayed in his chair, picking at a salad as people ducked for cover. Michael Glantz, a top agent at Creative Artists Agency and a guest at the White House correspondents’ dinner, said that he wanted to see what was happening.

this happened last night. That is Craig Kimbrel loading up to pitch to Ohtani as the catcher was walking out for a mound visit lol. Nobody was killed.

this makes more sense if you understand that the hard left doesn’t really object to the social conservatism of Republican voters at all. They literally do not care about social issues. They dislike “corporate” Dems became they remind them of people with laptop jobs/middle managers. That’s it

We've had Henry David Thoreau the environmentalist, the libertarian, the life coach—but to understand his influence, think of him first as a dissident, @galbeckerman.bsky.social argues.

A senior fellow I worked for at AEI referred to Pakistan as a “nuclear armed suicide bomber” years ago and that comment has always stuck with me…

“Drones and missiles were closely linked and developed together. It was only with the surveillance drones of the 1960s that the branches divided. Today’s loitering munitions are thus a partial reversal of that history, as they are increasingly seen as single-use systems rather than reusable ones.”

Tradwives baking cookies; a rising mistrust in vaccines; the return of 19th-century-style great-power politics. Everywhere you look, history is running backwards, David Brooks argues. He examines what it may mean for the future: theatln.tc/sRwcB1Ze

By refusing to bring his wars to a close, Benjamin Netanyahu is placing the vital partnership between the United States and Israel in grave peril. Why Israel is losing America | @mpolymer1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/why...

You're not that bright...and it doesn't bode well for "masters in Russian history" people to propound fatalistic claims and then cheer for them, perhaps getting on their high horses; a little bit of humility is not bad.

Not good.The world can do away with a few less Islamist, authoritarian, tin-pot dictators.And unlike what the western "decolonialism" believes...the appetite for separatism is less...apart from a few NC republics.

The two behemoths—each with a mass as large as 1 billion Suns—seem to orbit each other every 121 days. The duo’s dance cannot last forever. In as little as 100 years, the researchers say, the black holes should collide, shaking spacetime itself in a titanic burst of gravitational waves.

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Glad someone is taking notes.

worst democratic governor in the country imo

Western policymakers have no simple solution for curbing crypto-enabled sanctions evasion, writes columnist @agathedemarais.com.

Vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/c...

What could be the reason.

Fuel shortage can lead to strange things.

Since Donald Trump’s reelection, the Catholic Church in the United States has started sounding more liberal, Francis X. Rocca argues. He examines how the president’s second term shifted American bishops’ attention:

@roarkfineart.bsky.social the cowardly bitch deleted it. But here's a primer of her deranged ranting. agelender.substack.com/p/killers-in...

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

What an unhappy soul. I hope she finds help, because nothing she demands will fill the hole in her heart.

“It is necessary for an invaded people to be crushed by an imperialist oppressor so that the global hegemon’s war of choice goes better. I am very left wing.”

A fantastic discussion on civilian military relations with a great American. A stark reminder of how much better the world would be if there were more Eisenhower Republicans in American politics. Buy The State and the Soldier and read it! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @kschake.bsky.social

Dog of war.

Qatar is the top foreign donor to US universities. It donated the new Air Force 1. Behind this “philanthropy,” it hides its pro-terrorist propaganda for radical Islam & funding of Islamist terrorist groups like Hamas. Of course, now it blames Israel for its woes. jewishinsider.com/2026/03/qata...

Traitor Punish hungary.

Saudi is allied with turks,pakis and there's a genuine need to decouple from them,as info leaks will be hazardous.

This damn war… these damn times… This is the silent pain of the Ukrainian people. It doesn’t seek the spotlight because it is deeply personal. But the world must see not only the brave soldiers who continue to defense of one's own country, but also those who did everything humanly possible.

Civilians killed by Pakistani airstrike in Kunar www.khaama.com/woman-child-...

Back to 1930's

Abundance?

Disgraceful

Many (me) are saying this.