Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
Here is a selection of pieces we have published over the last twelve months that highlight the biggest stories and themes of 2025 — a year in ideas.
The new US National Security Strategy exposes a fundamental contradiction between civilisational ambition and strategic retrenchment. In doing so, it sets the stage for Europe’s em..
2025 was defined by AI exuberance and America First, as technological advances gathered momentum while the Trump administration sought to radically reshape the international order...
Throughout human history, commanders and warriors have adapted to waging war in the depths of winter, providing strategic lessons and cautionary tales for the Russo-Ukrainian confl..
A year on from the martial law disaster, South Korean democracy has recovered from its existential moment. Yet it would be premature to assume the country is back on a stable democ..
Zohran Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City is part of a decades-long clash between competing visions of America's greatest metropolis, and a historic contest between entre..
In Montaigne’s French, essays are not yet 'essays' but assays – trials, tests, experiments. Remove belief, whether in philosophy or religion, and what remains?
The United States must collaborate successfully with its allies if it is to compete with China in the global shipping industry.
Dig for Victory, a wartime propaganda operation that tapped into the national psyche, encouraged Britons to grow produce at home. With food security worse than it was in the 1930s,..
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