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Why we don’t remember pandemics
notebook
Information loss
essays
Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
essays
Wise warnings matter even more in this age of pandemics and big data
essays
How manga shapes Japanese identity
essays
This crisis has the capacity to be apocalyptic
essays
Counting the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
essays
2020: Putting our pandemic in perspective
essays
Ancient lessons for modern crisis
essays
The endless frontier
essays
Cats rule
notebook
Art, History and Pandemics with Tom Holland
podcasts
Doing our duty at home and abroad — A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid by Peter Hennessy review
book-review
China: The great uncoupling
essays
EI Weekly Listen — Hew Strachan on the cost of the 1918-19 pandemic
podcasts
EI Weekly Listen – Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics
podcasts
The demon of the house
notebook
The empty metropolis
essays
Rediscovering Germany
notebook
Meet the Zoomer generation
essays
Future proof
essays
Geopolitics of a pandemic
essays
EI Weekly Listen — You are not as clever as you think by Mark Pagel
podcasts
Why we make lists
notebook
EI Weekly Listen – Helen Thompson: Geopolitics of a pandemic
podcasts
Are we ready for the new humans?
book-review
Books of the Year 2023
book-review
Beppe Fenoglio: A Complex Centenary
notebook
EI Weekly Listen — The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
podcasts
Know your enemy
essays
Working From Anywhere — the holiday never stops
notebook
The People’s Republic of SF
essays
Three victories and a defeat
essays
The cult of Jacob Boehme
portraits
What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong
essays
Inside the disinformation forever war
essays
The many meanings of Georgia O’Keeffe
notebook
Stuck in Herbert’s Temple
notebook
First in their field — the men and women possessed by the spirit of adventure
book-review
Succession: the end of the line
notebook
The British Empire: a Very English Perspective
book-review
Finding Turkey in Narnia
essays
The salvation of Spinoza
essays
Globalisation: why it went into retreat
essays
What is England really made of?
book-review
What the Romans did for fun
notebook
Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement
essays
Fighting back against Russia — the return of propaganda
notebook
Learning from Asian philosophies of rebirth
essays
Playing with demons — how thought experiments guide scientific innovation
essays
In praise of music’s uselessness
notebook
Rewriting Spanish history, one song at a time
essays
The shifting fortunes of IS-Khorasan
book-review
Giovannino Guareschi: Italian Orwell
portraits
Neverending story
notebook
The human need for war
essays
Genius has its limits
notebook
Great Books: Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
book-review
Posthumous publication is a wicked literary problem
notebook
Books of the Year
book-review
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca – conquistador brawler turned defender of Indigenous American Rights
portraits
Michael Baxandall’s Renaissance ecstasy
book-review
Curt Bloch’s underwater resistance
book-review
From the Silk Road to the information superhighway
essays
Time running out in China’s waiting game — The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order by Rush Doshi review
book-review
How Arcadia was won and lost and found again
essays
Globalisation — lessons from George Canning on how to remake trade
essays
The intelligent use of history — what is the past good for?
essays
The possibility of elsewhere
notebook
Resilient London will regenerate
notebook
The History of Quarantine with Lincoln Paine
podcasts
How Taiwan won the semiconductor race
notebook
Liberty at risk as threats to freedom grow
essays
A Year in Ideas
essays
Mustang: the heart of Nepal’s China dream
notebook
The invention of Catherine the Great
essays
Great Books: E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops
book-review
Missing the theatre of everyday life
notebook
Nature through the eyes of two Victorians: a birdwatcher and his big-game hunting brother
essays
The Elizabethan era is laid to rest
essays
What does Xi Jinping really think?
essays
The vitality of Western civilisation
essays
An endless dialogue between past and present
essays
The many meanings of the age of upheaval
essays
When Dickens made his masterpiece
essays
John Perry Barlow and the struggle for the independence of cyberspace
essays
On the art of metallurgy
notebook
Anna Komnene – the princess who chronicled Byzantium’s changing fortunes
portraits
Amanda McKittrick Ros – romance unbounded
portraits
Shaping society — The Making of Our Urban Landscape by Geoffrey Tyack review
book-review
You are not as clever as you think
essays
The merrie histories of R.J. Unstead
notebook
The war for hearts and minds: the evolution of al-Qaeda’s media strategy
essays
Who’s seeing your data and why?
essays
Singing Byrd in a cage
notebook
Great Books: Albert Camus’ Le premier homme
book-review
In praise of the ellipsis
notebook
The birth of theosophy
essays
Jane the Virgin: Metafictional telenovela par excellence
notebook
Element of the absurd — In Search of Romania by Dennis Deletant review
book-review
The Empire strikes back
essays
Fire in the sky — a history of meteoritics
essays
The spirit of Hilary Mantel
notebook
Bond or Blofeld: war, espionage and secrecy in the twenty-first century
essays
Great Books: The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli
book-review
The infinite delight of Italo Calvino
book-review
Great Books: Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography
book-review
Simon Leys — the cosmopolitan scholar who broke the rules of Sinology
portraits
Great Books: Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
book-review
Great Books: Alistair Horne’s The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
book-review
Getting the CIA in working order
book-review
Larkin, prophet of postmodernism
book-review
Shakespeare’s Sisters: a women’s canon
notebook
Ghostwriting History
notebook
John Hersey’s lasting testament
book-review
The Vault of Heaven: Silvio Berlusconi’s final resting place
notebook
This isn’t Europe
book-review
Banishing Pétain’s ghost
book-review
The many worlds of Peter Brown
essays
The politician’s swift route to mockery
notebook
The many worlds of Margaret Cavendish
book-review
Among the Italians
notebook
Auden’s Austrian summer
book-review
The strange death of private life
essays
Napoleon can’t conquer the silver screen
notebook
Spinoza’s radical enlightenment
book-review
Roald Dahl’s readable but regrettable Uncle Oswald
notebook
Peter Viereck: Psychoanalyst of Nazism
portraits
When everything is empire
book-review
Homosexuality’s forbidden histories
book-review
Kafka’s goodbye to Berlin
notebook
Kind of Blue’s quiet mystery
book-review
Turin’s touch of the divine
notebook
Chamonix’s Sea of Ice — warning to a warming world
notebook
The lost art of listening
notebook
In search of Proustian little moments that make life worthwhile
notebook
The American dream making a come back
notebook
China rethinking its role
essays
Troubled waters
essays
Her Great Quality
notebook
Confucius, competition and modern China’s misuse of meritocracy
essays
We were on a break
notebook
Classics in the cul-de-sacs
notebook
Good poetry in a crisis
notebook
First orders please
notebook
Nepal’s shifting loyalties — All Roads Lead North: China, Nepal and the Conquest for the Himalayas by Amish Raj Mulmi review
book-review
Robert Adam and building beautiful
essays
Do we really know what war is anymore? — The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide To The New Way of War by Mark Galeotti review
book-review
Inauguration and the power of American ritual
notebook
When artists retrain
notebook
The geopolitical fight to come over green energy
essays
When disaster strikes
essays
Battling for the best and brightest: immigration, great power rivalry, and the history of talent importation
essays
More than a bandstand
notebook
Space and the new struggle for civilisational supremacy
essays
The Germans and their cars: history of a love affair
essays
A world without glamorous Shanghai is the poorer for it
notebook
Towards an Arcadian future
essays
How Elizabeth II created the role of the modern monarch
notebook
A very medieval cost of living crisis
notebook
Breaking the nuclear taboo
essays
Sanctions as potent yet unwieldy weapons of war
book-review
The year the West woke up
essays
Trust is the key to geopolitical strength
essays
The price of freedom
essays
The future of war is here
essays
Pulling at the threads of astrology
notebook
What is the British Army for?
notebook
Locked arms: looming threats to the Romania-NATO partnership
notebook
Pensions in a time of kings
notebook
Hacktivism’s Cold War Turns Hot
essays
China-US rivalry risks dividing the EU
essays
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — the first and only British woman to win a Nobel Prize in science
portraits
The ever-changing face of Istanbul
notebook
Epitaph on a mafioso’s grave
notebook
The ins and outs of the European project
book-review
Polycrisis? What polycrisis?
notebook
Securing Scandinavia
notebook
Europe’s eastward march
essays
Explaining the Golden Era
notebook
The West needs to wake up
essays
Fay Schopen, 1975-2023
notebook
A deep history of Canadian populism
essays
Leadership in crisis – why the West needs Plato more than ever
essays
God is back
essays
Cookie Policy
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Resisting the saccage of Paris
notebook
Anna de Noailles — a prodigious life
portraits
A very modern revival
notebook
The cloak-and-dagger intrigue of Italian presidential elections
notebook
Ernest Benn against the Census and the forces of Bumbledom
notebook
Bat-and-ball-games — an Italian obsession
notebook
A ship without a captain — Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav Zubok review
book-review
Akinpelu Obisesan — a gentleman diarist in colonial Africa
portraits
Digital dictatorship: a brutal examination of the UAE
book-review
Historical decadence — The Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones review
book-review
Klára Dán — esoteric intellect who wrote the first modern computer code
portraits
The future of war: embrace the new, remember the old
book-review
The Nation in Arms: Myth or reality?
essays
In defence of the Habsburgs
essays
Grey matters
notebook
A government of laws
essays
Modern France and the ghosts of the past
essays
The joy of books
book-review
The Sahara by armchair
notebook
The polymath in the age of specialisation
essays
Thomas Gage – a man of unintended consequences
portraits
The triumph of the Motherland
essays
Humanism matters in the age of AI
essays
Great Books: Voss by Patrick White
book-review
‘Make it New’ — the rewards of novelty in ancient literature
notebook
Decline in three dimensions
essays
Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making
essays
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan — for Xi, it’s personal
notebook
The moderate life of Decimus Magnus Ausonius
portraits
Waugh’s war
notebook
Traitorous Blake motivated by Cold War convictions
essays
A garden of schizophrenics
essays
History while it’s still smoking
essays
Yosano Akiko — a great of modern Japanese poetry
portraits
On betrayal
essays
Upstairs, downstairs, demolished – the changing fate of the English country house
essays
Five Eyes: the past, present and future of the world’s key intelligence alliance
essays
The restless search for fun wars
essays
America – nation of myth-makers
essays
A world of nations and states is here to stay
essays
The first Yugoslav
notebook
Philip Thicknesse — libertine turned ornamental hermit
portraits
The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity
essays
Why Jihadists write poetry
essays
Jaan Kross — a writer’s route to happiness
portraits
Adam Smith: the first anti-capitalist?
essays
The century of the gene
essays
Dunwich’s very English apocalypse
notebook
The countryside captured the novel
notebook
Who is the real Lady Whistledown?
notebook
Milton vs the echo chamber
notebook
The secrets of the special relationship
book-review
Dealing with the past – a Russian history
essays
The Eurasian Century, Part IV: Cold War
essays
The Platinum Jubilee — the joys of Pomp and Circumstance
notebook
Remembering Wilhelm Furtwängler
notebook
When King Cetshwayo came to London
notebook
Painting by numbers
notebook
Great Books: Charles Dickens’ Hard Times
book-review
The forgotten lessons of First World War strategy
essays
The Middle East: Kissinger’s masterpiece?
book-review
Heinrich Biber — composer of rapture and ravings
portraits
John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American dream
essays
William ‘Basher’ Dowsing — activist iconoclast
portraits
Spoken history: the modern importance of indigenous cultures
essays
The rise of the metaverse
notebook
Sweden’s swinging sixties
essays
John McDonald – poker-playing popularizer of game theory
portraits
Olympism: magic, myths and mega-events
notebook
A marriage of the geopolitical, the military and the material — Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy review
book-review
Richard Aldington — the war poet who rejected moral certainties about conflict
portraits
From Saartjie Baartman to Dolly the Sheep: what does genetic integrity mean?
essays
On tea
notebook
Tobias Smollett – a life in caricature
portraits
The forgotten grande dame of English letters
notebook
Orwell in all weathers
notebook
Madame de Pompadour — eighteenth-century fashion and twenty-first-century fads
book-review
The road to Auschwitz
book-review
How the information age really began
essays
The joy of suffering
essays
Digital revolution: a splash in the cognitive space?
essays
Iain Macleod — short-serving chancellor and lost Tory leader
portraits
Ticket to ride in Paris
notebook
Between Hitler and Mussolini: The agony of Pope Pius XII
book-review
Cato v Caesar
book-review
Business burble doesn’t beat real historical understanding
notebook
The many meanings of Anouilh’s Antigone
essays
World Cup has revealed the real Lionel Messi
notebook
Napoleon: the revolutionary who made himself an emperor
book-review
Who created The Paintings for the Temple?
essays
Irina Ratushinskaya — Soviet dissident who fought the good fight
portraits
The Suez Canal Purchase and the making of modern Britain
essays
In defence of architecture
book-review
The White Revolutionaries
essays
Liberty and the myth of Venice
essays
Leo Africanus’ uncertain world
book-review
Russia’s Scramble for Africa
book-review
The Anonymous Canon
notebook
Can Epic Poetry Revive History?
essays
Cyprian Ekwensi: Lagos life in the raw
portraits
The Franco-Prussian War was more than an historical event
book-review
A musical masterpiece
book-review
The long tail of elite violence
book-review
The invention of the average
book-review
Europe’s forgotten people
book-review
Hegel’s philosophy of history
book-review
Marion Dönhoff: the very best of Germany
notebook
Imperial Miasma Theory
essays
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy revisited
essays
Lucretius’ life-saving poem
essays
Realism meets reality
book-review
Giacomo Puccini: untormented genius
notebook
The sound of salvation: music against the Nazis
book-review
On Jewish identity
notebook
Israel’s new Yom Kippur
essays
Iranians know who their enemy is, and it’s not Israel
notebook
A Chinese history to start a fire
book-review
How history’s quest for truth became a call to action
essays
Jules Verne’s paradoxes of progress
notebook
Canada’s Pacific railway: an iron spine for a paper nation
book-review
Vienna’s vapour trail
book-review
A paean to Shane MacGowan
notebook
A French Revolution in fragments
book-review
The long fall of the Slavic nation
essays
Writing in the New Year
notebook
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and the humanity of history
notebook
The dialects of Joseph Wright
portraits
Why Zelenskyy fired Zaluzhnyi
notebook
The most dangerous of short stories
notebook
Attlee’s shadow
book-review
All hail King Zog?
book-review
Interwar architecture was much more than modernism
book-review
The magnificent unreality of Barbara Comyns
book-review
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