Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
In Clint Eastwood's latest film, Juror 2, the 94-year old director reworks themes of sin, redemption and guilt, intrinsic to the complex foundations of the American idea.
A 'comprehensive' exhibition devoted to Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou deprives the movement of its most essential characteristic: its willingness to confront the world of dream..
Tirzah Garwood's work is characterised by strangeness, meditative intensity and precision, and a deep sense of play.
Georg Elser came within minutes of assassinating Adolf Hitler in 1939. Had he succeeded, the 20th century might have run a very different course.
Britain's railways are more than just machines. They are a miniature civilisation in their own right, teeming with human experience and bound together by shining ribbons of steel.
Through the religious turbulence of the early modern period, women played an essential role in shaping, challenging, converting, and resisting Christian beliefs across Europe and t..
Monarchs once formed a thin, global network of people who slept in one another’s palaces and wore one another’s medals. But if their relationships are interesting, were they import..
Gamal Abdel Nasser, often remembered as a hero of Arab nationalism, was a far darker figure who exported a brutal model of revolutionary repression across the Arab world.
A serious investigation of the founding principles of liberalism must reckon with John Locke's complex legacy of ideas.
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