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Gregory Feifer on the mirage of Russian power
Gillian Clark on the many ways of seeing Saint Monica
Peter Heather on empire and development in first millennium Europe
Will AI revolutionise education?
Barry Strauss on Ancient Greek geopolitics
Jenny McCartney on Jean Denis, Comte Lanjuinais, fearless opponent of The Terror
Josef Joffe on the end of 'the end of history'
Werner Herzog
Michael Broers on how Napoleon built a continent
Aspasia of Miletus: queen of the Athenian salon
Norman Stone on the 1860s
Ukraine, two years on
David Frum on how empire-states are changing the game
Horace’s vast and complex legacy
Elisabeth Kendall on Jihadist poetry as propaganda
The Edwardians: the calm before the storm
Malise Ruthven on the appeal of ISIS
Can Israel win the peace?
Andrew Preston on the invention of American national security
The Soviet Union's bid for Africa
Charly Salonius-Pasternak on how Nordic and Baltic countries are preparing for war
The life and work of Mayazaki Hayao
Kimberly Kagan on the United States and the new way of war
A month that shook the world
Pascal Vennesson on the rise of transnational war-making
Rolf Ekéus on how to end wars
Philip Bobbitt on the new global disorder
Setting 2023 in perspective
Yu Jie on the deep historical roots of China's global ambition
A new world of intelligence
Andrew Monaghan on how the past shapes Russian grand strategy
The challenges of counter-insurgency
Pär Stenbäck on religion and politics in the Middle East
The promise and perils of declassifying intelligence
Wolfgang Palaver on the complex relationship between violence and religion
Recovering the women of Augustine's Confessions
Gary Lachman on the sources of mystical experience
The Beatles’ cultural legacy
Benedetta Berti on the legacy of the Arab Awakening of 2010
Tecumseh and the Shawnee Confederacy
Armin W. Geertz on the pre-historical roots of religious belief
A deep history of Gaza
David Goodhart on bridging the value divide
A new translation of the Iliad
Jonathan Fenby on the challenge for a totalitarian China
Israel’s harrowing week and the consequences for the Middle East
Kjell Nordström on the future of capitalism
The cultural resonances of Autumn
Maurizio Viroli on the city as a political order and urban space
The problems and perils of nuclear strategy
Gudrun Persson on rewriting Russian history
The conduct and practice of war
Fraser Nelson on the Intellectual Dark Web
Kennedy’s enduring status
Christopher Coker on the changing meaning of patriotism in war
A guide to Rugby Union
Remaking the moral case for capitalism by Iain Martin
Spoken history: the modern importance of indigenous cultures by John Hemming
EI Weekly Listen — Mark Plotkin on the price of deforestation
EI Weekly Listen — On the good society by David Goodhart
EI Weekly Listen — Time to regulate the development of AI by Maria Borelius
Mick Jagger at 80
What the Silicon Valley idealists got wrong
The future of tourism
Wealth and poverty in Renaissance Florence by Antony Molho
The uses and misuses of anger
The public realm and the language of architecture by John Simpson
Sully, Richelieu, and Mazarin
Can warfare ever be considered modern?
AI and the threat to the arts
War and statehood by Philip Bobbitt
Machiavelli's foundational contribution to the study of statecraft
Clashing histories and present-day tensions in East Asia by Rana Mitter
The deep meaning of Cricket
Do we know the truth about the Thirty Years’ War?
The problem with Classical music
Strategy, resilience and defence
Each Charter’d Street: Taking the long view on urban planning by Nicholas Boys Smith
The future of AI
The geopolitics and grand strategy of Alfred Thayer Mahan by John H. Maurer
The cultural conversation of mankind by Christopher Coker
Epic news
A Sacred Coronation for a Secular Nation
The other side of the hill
In search of Lebensraum
The crusader of goodwill
Where does esotericism belong in modern academia?
Welcome to the fifth age of the city
The power of central banks
How the individual invented the modern West
Worldview — The Return of Applied History
Katja Hoyer on East Germany
Bringing beauty back to the city
The future of the museum
Learning from Asian philosophies of rebirth by Jessica Frazier
Sarah Bakewell on Humanism
How to end a war
America’s return as the reluctant defender of the liberal order by Kori Schake
Worldview — People power: dealing with demography
The City of God: on Augustine’s vision of Empire