5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1260+ words) Michael Lucchese is the founder of Pipe Creek Consulting, a communications firm based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a communications aide to U.S. Senator Ben Sasse. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2018, and in 2017 was a Political Studies Fellow at the…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1200+ words) Europe’s overseas possessions could be a major global asset Engelsberg Ideas Europe’s overseas possessions could be a major global asset The continent's leading powers must revive their old imperial nodes and networks. Meanwhile, President Javier Milei announced sanctions on oil…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1327+ words) The aspirations of modern China are rooted in President Xi's historical fictions combined with Marxist beliefs, a Leninist mentality and fervent nationalism. China’s Global Strategy Under Xi Jinping, Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung, Oxford University Press, £22.99 The world view from…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (215+ words) De Gaulle’s rise, fall and rise again Engelsberg Ideas De Gaulle’s rise, fall and rise again 'De Gaulle: Résistance', the first instalment of Antonin Baudry's biopic of the Free French leader, is thrilling, historically convincing and, at times, rather moving....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (583+ words) In the postwar period, the US-led world order succeeded in taming efforts to redraw international boundaries by force, but eliminating such impulses entirely is not a realistic basis for an effective grand strategy. The desire to revise territorial boundaries through…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (218+ words) As death approached, the titan of the Scottish Enlightenment found solace in the company of close friends rather than in the hope of religious redemption. My Own Life concludes with Hume’s discovery of his final illness, which he appears to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (795+ words) Alexander Noyes is a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Washington, and co-author of 'War at Arm’s Length: How America Can Build Effective Partners Through Military Assistance.' Jason C. Moyer is a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (290+ words) The notion of a new world order shaped by the Global South, a reincarnation of the Third World, is a chimera. Middle-power dynamism is the surest way to preserve the Global West in a new form. From the ‘Third World…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (348+ words) Engelsberg Ideas The first Moscow show trial A compelling film by the Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa captures the grotesque spectacle that anticipated Stalin’s purge of his rivals. It is 90 years this month since the Trial of the Sixteen, which commenced…...