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Engelsberg Ideas
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Home to the finest writing from leading thinkers on history, culture and geopolitics, featuring essays, notebooks, reviews and regular podcasts.
Joined May 2020
- This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic - read Peter Frankopan's essay here engelsbergideas.com/essays/this-cr… #EI #engelsbergideas #Crisis
- Ghost-town London had its harbingers in literature and history. How will it emerge from its isolation? @holland_tom gives us insight into lockdown London in this captivating essay, and we are chilled! engelsbergideas.com/essays/pandemi… #EI #engelsbergideas #TomHolland #lockdown #London
- 'Good, strategic and courageous decisions are needed now in the West. We may almost be out of time to make them.' Mick Ryan (@WarintheFuture) on how the West needs to boost its industrial capacity fast:
- From the 1970s onwards, the Soviet Union and Russia were debilitated by old, feeble and inept leaders. America risks following the same path. The gerontology of power | @VladislavZubok1
- Andrew Roberts (@aroberts_andrew) writes the first portrait for Engelsberg Ideas. Brendan Bracken - the mysterious man behind Churchill. Read it here
- 'The Ukrainian strategy of corrosion, newly supported by HIMARS, is how clever twenty-first century military organisations must fight if they seek to win.' Mick Ryan @WarintheFuture on High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems:
- Karl Marx was wrong about revolutions - in practice, they beget Caesars and Napoleons, Richard Whatmore writes for Engelsberg Ideas. #EI #engelsbergideas #revolution
- Inspired by the deserts of his homeland Australia, Patrick White mastered a unique and unsparing prose which continues to resonate with writers the world over. #EI #EngelsbergIdeas @dolphinsands engelsbergideas.com/notebook/great…
- Read 'The quest for Vino and Veritas' by @AgnesCPoirier The journey into wine is almost like a pilgrimage, with many new encounters and friends along the way.
- Engelsberg Ideas is the home to great writing from the world’s leading thinkers on history and culture, featuring essays, historical portraits and regular podcasts. Visit engelsbergideas.com for the latest! #ei #engelsbergideas #accesstoexcellence
00:00 - New History Lessons Podcast Episode with host @MattiasHesserus in conversation with Fredrik Logevall - author of the new, landmark work on the making of JFK. engelsbergideas.com/podcasts/histo… #ei #engelsbergideas #jfk #Kennedy
- To argue that Thatcher attacked the post-war dream is to caricature, not illuminate, her importance to British history. Read Graham Stewart's new essay on EI. engelsbergideas.com/essays/continu… #Thatcher #britishhisory #history #Engelsbergideas #EI #GrahamStewart @UniOfBuckingham
