Historian and journalist. Literary Editor @EngelsbergIdeas | Email: jack@engelsbergideas.com
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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 soon. A big thank you to @_paullay and @forlaget_stolpe for the opportunity.
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Read my piece in @EngelsbergIdeas about Robert Molesworth and his scathing account of Danish absolutism! His _Account of Denmark_ is the best skewering of my country and people ever delivered.
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“Among the Danes he found ‘no Enthusiasts, Mad-men, Natural Fools, or fanciful Folks’ and, he said, ‘everyone keeps to the ordinary beaten road of sense’. It was not a compliment.”
The Irish-born Whig’s time as a diplomat formed his view of Denmark as a cautionary tale for the English: of how a country descends into absolutism.
Robert Molesworth, denouncer of Danish tyranny | @fbasboll
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Wonderful piece by @fbasboll on English liberty vs Danish slavery.
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The Irish-born Whig’s time as a diplomat formed his view of Denmark as a cautionary tale for the English: of how a country descends into absolutism.
Robert Molesworth, denouncer of Danish tyranny | @fbasboll
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu’s call for a ‘working-class liberalism’ fails to address the underlying cause of liberal democracy’s woes: a lack of productivity.
The wrong prescription for liberal democracy’s ills | Marc Levinson
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More hot takes from me !
How did Tory Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli influence socialists? @EmilyJonesVIII on the blurring of political ideologies.
🎧 The EI Podcast: Reinventing Disraeli
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How did Tory Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli influence socialists? @EmilyJonesVIII on the blurring of political ideologies.
🎧 The EI Podcast: Reinventing Disraeli
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Historian James M. Scott describes America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in harrowing detail, while highlighting Japan’s obduracy, even when faced with the prospect of total annihilation.
Truman’s impossible atomic calculus | David Vaiani
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It was fascinating to talk to John B. Sheldon, who knows everything worth knowing about space technology and warfare:
I had the great pleasure to sit down with @EngelsbergIdeas podcast to discuss my two favourite topics, geopolitics and space, and all things in between!!
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I had the great pleasure to sit down with @EngelsbergIdeas podcast to discuss my two favourite topics, geopolitics and space, and all things in between!!
🎧The EI Podcast: Space and the new clash of civilisations
Earlier this month, the US confirmed for the first time that it had deployed a space weapon in Earth’s orbit. @JohnBSheldon and @jackfdickens discuss the fight for extraterrestrial supremacy.
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Finland’s Winter War has become a national legend, while the Baltic states’ surrender to Stalin in 1940 is remembered as a humiliation. But the story of Baltic submission is a myth.
What if the Baltic states had resisted Stalin? | Gordon F. Sander
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🎧The EI Podcast: Space and the new clash of civilisations
Earlier this month, the US confirmed for the first time that it had deployed a space weapon in Earth’s orbit. @JohnBSheldon and @jackfdickens discuss the fight for extraterrestrial supremacy.
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) were first conceived for military use and deployed on polar bases. Seventy years on, their record remains dismal.
SMRs: a short history of a nuclear pipe dream | Paul Josephson
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Fifty years on, ‘I, Claudius’ remains a startling account of power, lust and statecraft.
The rise and fall of Rome’s first family | @_paullay
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John Coltrane was a spiritual searcher whose shimmering, joyful music pushed jazz to its limits.
Coltrane, the acceptable face of the avant-garde | @MaxJMitchell1
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The only anti-war party was struck off the ballot and online votes were counted by mysterious means. In Russia's latest exercise in democracy, the ruling party's landslide was never in doubt.
The absurd theatre of Russia’s choice-free election | Egor Sokolov
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The Mecca Agreement could work as part of a web of narrower, overlapping alliances better suited to the region than any grand alliance.
The Middle East’s coalitions of convenience | @ialmarashi and @tgoudsouzian
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Simon Sebag Montefiore's wildly ambitious history of the region since 1900 is a richly illustrated guide to the law of unintended consequences.
How the Middle East boiled over | James Barr
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Transcendentalism, the visionary philosophy championed by figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, is the yin of the American Revolution.
Concord’s second revolution | Richard Marranca
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