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The new right’s hollow aesthetic
America's right-wing radical counter-elites have a problem with the preservation of culture.
Sumantra Maitra
July 8, 2025
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Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
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The importance of strategic depth
As Napoleon discovered, during his catastrophic invasion of Russia, strategic depth is among the most critical factors in the winning of wars. It remains so today.
Nadia Schadlow
July 7, 2025
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Twelve days that shook the Middle East
In the wake of a sudden ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump, the brief but explosive conflict between Israel and Iran has left more questions than answers.
Ali Fathollah-Nejad
July 3, 2025
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Nietzsche’s manifesto for reading
Nietzsche did not write for the distracted, the hurried, or the comfortable. He believed that a book should demand effort, provoke resistance, and leave a mark.
Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri
July 2, 2025
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Erik Satie, prophet of the aurally overloaded world
The composer Erik Satie would have understood our era of atrophied attention spans and mass-produced music.
Richard Bratby
July 1, 2025
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The unravelling of the rock festival
Despite the peace signs and pat slogans of togetherness and diversity, the rock festival, like the genre it celebrates, has, from its beginnings, had issues with ethical consistenc..
Paul Lay
July 1, 2025
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How Putin got the Middle East wrong
With Russia’s key partner in the Middle East on the ropes, the Kremlin runs the risk of being drawn into a broader conflict it cannot afford.
Sergey Radchenko
July 1, 2025
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Russia’s reinvention of invasion literature
Russian 'Z' literature, a best-selling genre of fiction with storylines that inculcate young readers into the ideology of Putin’s regime, has its antecedents in the darker chapters..
Oliver Soden
June 30, 2025
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The rights and wrongs of self-defence
International law on self-defence has a long history, dating back to the ‘Caroline affair’ of 1837. In a new age of conflict, states are testing the limits of pre-emptive action.
Suzanne Raine
June 30, 2025