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If the Syrian government cannot impose order on disparate sectarian militias, the country will lapse into a destructive new civil war. The Syrian state is unravelling | James Snell engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-s…
How Brazil avoided disaster in Vietnam | @RyanAMusto engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how-b…
I didn't think the book really worked, but I enjoyed writing and thinking about Marina Warner's new book Sanctuary for @engelsbergideas engelsbergideas.com/reviews/when-s…
Marina Warner’s idea of sanctuary in storytelling is unable to meet her book's ambitions. When sanctuary looks like retreat | @MathewJLyons engelsbergideas.com/reviews/when-s…
Lawrence Durrell’s lost Mediterranean - @guystagg for @EngelsbergIdeas - How Durrell influenced European perceptions of the Eastern Mediterranean: engelsbergideas.com/reviews/lawren…
My latest for EI on the triumphs and tragedies of Syria’s Druze:
Syria’s Druze have often been caught between their commitment to national independence and a wariness of Sunni domination. The Druze, no friends but the mountains | @jackfdickens engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-d…
Syria’s Druze have often been caught between their commitment to national independence and a wariness of Sunni domination. The Druze, no friends but the mountains | @jackfdickens engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-d…
An Englishman? The inventor of Parisian couture? By me for @EngelsbergIdeas
The house that Worth built | @murielzagha engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-ho…
I learned a lot from this piece on Syria's Druze community in @EngelsbergIdeas . It's a great example of how deep historical understanding can help us make sense of otherwise exceedingly complex contemporary sectarian and geopolitical developments: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-d…
For @EngelsbergIdeas I reflected on the centenary of _Mein Kampf_:
A window into Hitler’s soul | @si_rubinstein engelsbergideas.com/notebook/a-win…
The industrialist Henry J. Kaiser played a pivotal role in the lightning mobilisation of American industry that took place after Pearl Harbor, a contribution that deserves wider recognition. Who remembers Henry J. Kaiser? | Gordon F. Sander engelsbergideas.com/portraits/who-…
One of the best essays written recently. engelsbergideas.com/essays/indias-…
Call me a Luddite but this piece captures how I feel about AI‘s threat to writing. Writing is how humans organize thought to exercise reason, which is at the core of philosophy and strategy. Outsourcing that function to an imitative machine is a mistake. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-warni…
The weekend read you need - by @AaronBMacLean my colleague @HudsonInstitute - engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-warni…
India’s war on the Mughal Empire | Richard M. Eaton engelsbergideas.com/essays/indias-…
A window into Hitler’s soul | @si_rubinstein engelsbergideas.com/notebook/a-win…
Iran’s forever crisis is far from over | @AOstovar engelsbergideas.com/notebook/irans…
A paean to the Paris Métro | @AgnesCPoirier engelsbergideas.com/notebook/a-pae…
Richard Eaton, doyen of early modern South Asian history, writes “The profound legacies of the Mughal Empire, forged through a remarkable fusion of Persian and Sanskrit worlds, are now under siege from a mythical vision of India’s past”. engelsbergideas.com/essays/indias-…