4+ hour ago   (756+ words) Pratinav Anil teaches European and World History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and reviews frequently for the Times and the Guardian. He is a judge on this year's Baillie Gifford Prize. His books, 'India's First Dictatorship: The Emergency,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (455+ words) engelsbergideas.com The Outpost: a Homeric world of warfare Rod Lurie's film provides a visceral, harrowing depiction of one of the most brutal battles of America's war in Afghanistan. At dawn on 3 October 2009, Camp Keating, a vulnerably exposed US Army…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (887+ words) Elisabeth Braw is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the author of Goodbye Globalization (Yale University Press, 2024). She is also a columnist with Foreign Policy and Politico Europe, where she writes on national security and the globalised economy....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1191+ words) Engelsberg Ideas A choral tradition without equal The world-beating British choral tradition, now under threat, is infinite in variety and blessed in its capacity for renewal. British Choral Singing: A History from Medieval Times to the Present Day, Peter Ward…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1027+ words) Richard Bratby is the chief classical music critic of the Spectator, and writes on music and cultural history for Gramophone, Bachtrack, the Critic, the BBC and the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals. His books include Forward: 100 Years of the City of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (324+ words) British commanders are still trained to prize the flash of intuitive brilliance. In an age of AI and autonomous systems, that instinct may prove actively regressive. All this is defensible. Who wouldn’t want imaginative commanders with drive and energy who,…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (844+ words) Europe’s century of catastrophe need not have happened Engelsberg Ideas Europe’s century of catastrophe need not have happened Rajiv Joseph's 'Archduke' at London's Royal Court reminds us that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the continent's cascade into war,…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1207+ words) Engelsberg Ideas Was Hilma af Klint really an abstract artist? The Swedish mystic's paintings may be representational after all, giving form to phenomena beyond our comprehension. The rise of Sweden’s Hilma af Klint to art-world superstardom has been nothing less…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (345+ words) Engelsberg Ideas The solitude of Barbara France's great melancholic singer deserves an audience beyond the francophone world. The French chanteuse Barbara (always Barbara) died in 1997 to immense mourning from her compatriots. Though not especially well-known outside the francophone world, she…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1736+ words) Paul Cartledge is Emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, and his doctorate is from the University of Oxford. He was a consultant for the BBC series The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (narrated by Liam Neeson)…...