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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. https://engelsbergideas.com/
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Why the West is missing out on Africa’s minerals | Paul Josephson & Viktoriya Zakrevskaya

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Why the West is missing out on Africa's minerals
As the AI revolution continues to gather pace, Western nations need to rethink their relations with African governments. If they do not, China and Russia will win the geopolitical game for the contine...
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Why the West is missing out on Africa’s minerals | Paul Josephson & Viktoriya Zakrevskaya

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Why the West is missing out on Africa's minerals
As the AI revolution continues to gather pace, Western nations need to rethink their relations with African governments. If they do not, China and Russia will win the geopolitical game for the contine...
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 13h
Vogue model, photographer, Surrealist muse, war correspondent and gourmet chef – Lee Miller's life was one of constant reinvention.

Lee Miller’s life on both sides of the lens | Katie Tobin

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Lee Miller's life on both sides of the lens
Vogue model, photographer, Surrealist muse, war correspondent and gourmet chef – Lee Miller's life was one of constant reinvention.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 16h
More than institutional rewiring, France needs to transform its political culture, away from grandiose ideals and toward common sense.

France’s common sense vacuum | Marc Le Chevallier

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France's common sense vacuum
More than institutional rewiring, France needs to transform its political culture, away from grandiose ideals and toward common sense.
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The Risorgimento myth | Gerald Warner

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The Risorgimento myth
Many perceive Italy as a country divided between an economically prosperous North and an impoverished, agrarian South. The origins of this divergence lie in a 19th-century ‘black legend’ designed to d...
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Tea and treachery in Hitler’s Berlin | Roger Moorhouse

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Tea and treachery in Hitler's Berlin
In a Berlin apartment in 1943, aristocrats and intellectuals gathered for tea to vent their doubts about Hitler. But one guest was a spy, and their words would seal their fate.
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 2d
Not my headline, but it's perfect! Thank you @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 2d
I had the great pleasure of reviewing Richard Holmes' superb new biography of the young Tennyson for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social tracing the impact of contemporary scientific developments on his work - and on his already troubled pyschology. engelsbergideas.com/reviews/tenn...
Tennyson was young once
A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 2d
I had the great pleasure of reviewing Richard Holmes' superb new biography of the young Tennyson for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social tracing the impact of contemporary scientific developments on his work - and on his already troubled pyschology. engelsbergideas.com/reviews/tenn...
Tennyson was young once
A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 2d
With the US seemingly resigned from the peace process, the war will end when Ukraine's infrastructure is destroyed – or Russia runs out of money.

Will Russia crack? | Owen Matthews

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Will Russia crack?
With the US seemingly resigned from the peace process, the war will end when Ukraine's infrastructure is destroyed – or Russia runs out of money.
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A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.

Tennyson was young once | @mathewlyons.bsky.social

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Tennyson was young once
A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.
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Werner Herzog’s truth | Bryan Appleyard

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Werner Herzog's truth
All Werner Herzog's works are mysterious; they never quite resolve into a simple idea or conclusion. His latest book explains why.
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Werner Herzog’s truth | Bryan Appleyard

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Werner Herzog's truth
All Werner Herzog's works are mysterious; they never quite resolve into a simple idea or conclusion. His latest book explains why.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 5d
The West's political institutions should strive to do less, but better.

Why politicians need to show, not tell | Eliot Wilson

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Why politicians need to show, not tell
The West's political institutions should strive to do less, but better.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 7d
The Hungarian leader's balancing act between western powers and a revisionist bloc is unsustainable in an era of great-power competition.

Viktor Orbán’s geopolitical hedging | @elviratamus.bsky.social

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Viktor Orbán’s geopolitical hedging
The Hungarian leader's balancing act between western powers and a revisionist bloc is unsustainable in an era of great-power competition.
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The melting of polar sea-ice is opening up a new and uncertain sphere for geopolitical competition.

The fight for the Arctic’s future | @edentravels.bsky.social

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The fight for the Arctic's future
The melting of polar sea-ice is opening up a new and uncertain sphere for geopolitical competition.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 5d
The West's political institutions should strive to do less, but better.

Why politicians need to show, not tell | Eliot Wilson

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Why politicians need to show, not tell
The West's political institutions should strive to do less, but better.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 7d
The Hungarian leader's balancing act between western powers and a revisionist bloc is unsustainable in an era of great-power competition.

Viktor Orbán’s geopolitical hedging | @elviratamus.bsky.social

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Viktor Orbán’s geopolitical hedging
The Hungarian leader's balancing act between western powers and a revisionist bloc is unsustainable in an era of great-power competition.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 7d
The melting of polar sea-ice is opening up a new and uncertain sphere for geopolitical competition.

The fight for the Arctic’s future | @edentravels.bsky.social

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The fight for the Arctic's future
The melting of polar sea-ice is opening up a new and uncertain sphere for geopolitical competition.
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Indonesia’s departure from its traditional adherence to fiscal orthodoxy is fuelling economic and political anxiety.

Indonesia’s new economics | Imran Shamsunahar

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Indonesia's new economics
Indonesia’s departure from its traditional adherence to fiscal orthodoxy is fuelling economic and political anxiety.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 9d
The films of the great Italian director Luchino Visconti are meditations on how the present still bears the marks of things thought lost.

Luchino Visconti’s civilisation | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social

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Luchino Visconti's civilisation
The films of the great Italian director Luchino Visconti are meditations on how the present still bears the marks of things thought lost.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 8d
Against a backdrop of shifting empires and fragile alliances, two brotherhoods carved out reputations steeped in violence and myth.

The Assassins’ and Templars’ shared fate | Nicholas Morton

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The Assassins' and Templars' shared fate
Among the shifting empires and fragile alliances, two unlikely brotherhoods — the Assassins and the Knights Templar — carved out reputations steeped in violence and myth.
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Jack Dickens @jackfdickens.bsky.social · 7d
In an explosive White Paper, issued in May 1939, the British government made an extraordinary offer to the Palestinian Arab leadership: Britain would recognise an independent, Arab-majority Palestinian state within 10 years.

What happened next? Find out in my latest piece for EI:
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 8d
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.

Creating a quagmire in Palestine | @jackfdickens.bsky.social

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Creating a quagmire in Palestine
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 8d
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.

Creating a quagmire in Palestine | @jackfdickens.bsky.social

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Creating a quagmire in Palestine
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.
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Jack Dickens @jackfdickens.bsky.social · 8d
My latest for EI on Britain, Palestine and turning points that fail to turn:
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 8d
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.

Creating a quagmire in Palestine | @jackfdickens.bsky.social

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Creating a quagmire in Palestine
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 8d
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.

Creating a quagmire in Palestine | @jackfdickens.bsky.social

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Creating a quagmire in Palestine
Britain’s 1939 White Paper on Palestine, regarded as both an opportunity and a betrayal, was a point at which history failed to turn.
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Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social · 8d
My new review is just out for Engelsberg Ideas on Steve Tibble's Assassins and Templars!

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The Assassins' and Templars' shared fate
Among the shifting empires and fragile alliances, two unlikely brotherhoods — the Assassins and the Knights Templar — carved out reputations steeped in violence and myth.
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