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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.
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialKyiv’s unorthodox approach to reforming its public institutions has been to bring in experts from outside. But they will only have an impact if given the right powers.
Ukraine’s experiment with foreign reformers | Kseniya Sotnikova
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialThough the Vikings are famous for their long sea journeys, most of them lived settled lives as farmers. The archaeologist Neil Price believes their stories are just as interesting.
Why settled Vikings deserve our attention | @katherineharvey.bsky.social
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialFrance’s riots may carry echoes of 1789 and 1968, and of a long tradition of taking to the streets, but they are also the product of a stranger, more troubling side of contemporary France.
France’s riots: revolution without utopia | @murielzagha.bsky.social
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialHer performance as Eve Kendall in ‘North by Northwest’, Alfred Hitchcock’s unique, surreal masterpiece, will never be forgotten.
Eva Marie Saint’s stolen glances | David Thomson
@amwilson.bsky.socialReposted by @engelsbergideas.bsky.socialI reviewed the new Renoir exhibition at the National Gallery. I see it has polarised opinion elsewhere - high praise from male reviewers for The Guardian/Telegraph and terrible reviews from female reviewers at The Times/Observer. I found plenty to enjoy, with a few caveats.
@engelsbergideas.bsky.social🎧The EI Podcast: Napoleon’s nest of vipers
Napoleon appointed a total of 26 Marshals, yet only two of them fought alongside him at the Battle of Waterloo. Andrew Roberts speaks to Paul Lay about his new book, ‘Napoleon and his Marshals’.
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@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialRussia, which in 1954 under Soviet rule mastered the ‘peaceful atom’, has weaponised Ukraine’s nuclear power as a tool of war. Paul Josephson explains.
🎧The EI Podcast: Russia’s war on Ukrainian science
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@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialDJ Taylor’s meditation on the author of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is incisive and thoughtful, even for those left cold by Middle-earth.
Tolkien for the unconverted | @paullay.bsky.social
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialWill AI really turn us into paperclips? | Erik J. Larson
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialA record victory for Latvia’s pro-Ukraine prime minister was accompanied by a surge for populist parties in the country’s lowest-ever general election turnout.
Moscow is watching Latvia. Is Washington? | Gordon F. Sander
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialReposted by @engelsbergideas.bsky.socialAI-powered earbuds that translate in real time are remarkable tools. But doing the hard work of learning another language offers something more: a new way of seeing the world.
Why AI translation is no substitute for learning a language | Caitlin Allen
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialNo painter took the passing pleasures of Parisian life more seriously than Renoir.
Renoir’s endless promenade | @amwilson.bsky.social
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialJan Rüger’s erudite study makes a compelling case for seeing the bond between Britain and Germany as a driving force in European history.
Britain and Germany: Europe’s original special relationship | Brendan Simms
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialAI-powered earbuds that translate in real time are remarkable tools. But doing the hard work of learning another language offers something more: a new way of seeing the world.
Why AI translation is no substitute for learning a language | Caitlin Allen
@profilebooks.bsky.socialReposted by @engelsbergideas.bsky.socialIn the beginning, there was the vine...
Listen to Kathleen Burk's interview with Max Mitchell on the @engelsbergideas.bsky.social podcast – available wherever you get yours 🎧
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@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialThe Brazilian election is being viewed as a referendum on Donald Trump’s ability to reel in Latin America’s largest economy and last major left-wing holdout.
Is Latin America’s pink tide ebbing in Brazil? | Stephen G. Bloom
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialAs Steve Reich turns 90, a chance encounter with the composer shows why his genre-hopping music holds such enduring appeal.
Watching Steve Reich watch Steve Reich | James Hardie
@jackfdickens.bsky.socialReposted by @engelsbergideas.bsky.socialI very much enjoyed this conversation with Paul Josephson exploring the history behind Russia’s war on Ukrainian science:
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialPaul Josephson traces the historical roots of Vladimir Putin’s aggressive Russification policies.
🎧The EI Podcast: Russia’s war on Ukrainian science
@engelsbergideas.bsky.socialRichard Dawkins’s bestseller defined New Atheism, an intellectual fashion whose conclusions look increasingly irrelevant.
Losing faith in New Atheism: ‘The God Delusion’ 20 years on | Guy Stagg
