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The double agent who introduced Japan to the West
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Bill Emmott (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/bill-emmott/) profiles Lafcadio Hearn, the Anglo-Irish-Greek foreign correspondent who made Japan his home. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-double-agent-who-introduced-japan-to-the-west/.

Image: Lafcadio Hearn photographed with his wife, Setsuko Koizumi, and their son. Credit: GRANGER -...
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Lessons from the Wall Street Crash
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Bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses his new book, 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321010/1929-by-sorkin-andrew-ross/9780241479414) , with EI&#39;s Iain Martin.

Image: The Wall Street financial crash of 1929, with a city businessman speculator trying to sell his car for $100 cash, having lost all on the stock market. C...
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1821 and the invention of world order
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Historian Damian Valdez on international order&#39;s 19th-century origins. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/1821-and-the-invention-of-world-order/.

Image: Mexican general Agustín de Iturbide rides through a ceremonial arch to welcoming officials in Mexico City on September 27, 1821, after decisively winning independence for Mexico. Credit: Al...
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The growing-pains of Graham Greene
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Critic Malcolm Forbes (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/malcolm-forbes/) investigates Graham Greene&#39;s troubled childhood. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-growing-pains-of-graham-greene/.

Image: Graham Greene in 1940. Credit: Everett Collection Historical / Alamy Stock Photo
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The Slavic War according to Stalin
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Historian Luka Ivan Jukic (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/luka-ivan-jukic/) explores how Stalin hijacked the Slavic cause to forge the Soviet Empire. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-slavic-war-according-to-stalin/.

Image: A poster celebrating Stalin at the Russian State Library, Moscow. Credit: Album / Alamy Stock Photo
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A warning to the young: just say no to AI
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Aaron MacLean (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/aaron-maclean/) , host of the School of War podcast, on AI&#39;s threat to the life of the mind. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-warning-to-the-young-just-say-no-to-ai/.

Image: The Library Hall of the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences. Credit: Petr Svarc / Alamy Stock Photo
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The Slow Horses are Britain’s perfect spies
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Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) on the magic of Mick Herron’s Slough House series.

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Stephen Kotkin on a new age of warfare
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EI&#39;s Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) discusses a world order in flux with Stephen Kotkin (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/stephen-kotkin/) , historian and biographer of Stalin.

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The Great French Songbook
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Why do people the world over enjoy listening to songs sung in French? Critic Muriel Zagha (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/muriel-zagha/) illuminates the living tradition of French chanson.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-great-french-songbook/.

Image: Juliette Gréco, the French actress and singer. Credit: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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Our attention dilemma is age-old
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Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) explores an attention dilemma that has haunted western thought for centuries. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/our-attention-dilemma-is-age-old/.

Image: Detail from Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse, 1903. Credit: SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo
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How the state can do more for less
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Historian David Cowan (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/david-cowan/) explains how radical reform can reshape the state. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-the-state-can-do-more-for-less/.

Image: A political caricature, &#39;Political Dreams, Visions of Peace, Perspective Horrors&#39;, by James Gillray of Pitt the Younger. Credit: INTERFOTO /...
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David Omand (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/david-omandq/) , ex-head of GCHQ, the British government&#39;s world-renowned cyber agency, explores how intelligence officers exploit the latest technological advances.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-espionage-revolution/.

Image: Digital espionage is on the rise. Credit: Stu Gray / Alamy Stock Photo
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EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by Jonathan Esty (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/jonathan-esty/) , of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, to discuss Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, published 70 years ago, a gripping novel that captures the passing of the bato...
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Samuel Rubinstein (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/samuel-rubinstein/) explores how Nazi historiographers sought to present Adolf Hitler as the heir to Charlemagne. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-the-nazis-weaponised-charlemagne/.

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James Vitali (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/james-vitali/) reflects on the profound importance of political judgement. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-do-we-get-the-wrong-leaders/.

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Journalist Duncan Weldon (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-liberal-democracies-win-total-wars/) reveals how liberal capitalist economies adapt to total war. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Read the original essay here: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-liberal-democracies-win-total-wars/.

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No more Napoleons: British grand strategy in the 19th century
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EI’s Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) joins historian Andrew Lambert (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/andrew-lambert/) to discuss his book ‘No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One&#39;, Lambert&#39;s provocative new study of how Britain maximised its naval and diplomatic prestige to maintain a stable, post-Napoleonic Europe.

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Historian Katherine Bayford (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/katherine-bayford/) exposes the fractures and contradictions that doomed the Confederacy from within. Read by Leighton Pugh.

FURTHER READING:

The rift that doomed the Confederacy | Katherine Bayford (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/alexander-stephens/)

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This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial - a seminal work that continues to captivate and unsettle its readers. EI’s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by Karolina Watroba (https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/karolina-watroba) , author of Metamorphose...
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FURTHER READING:

The Knights Templars and the pursuit of Christendom | Nicholas Morton (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-knights-templars-and-the-pursuit-of-christendom/)

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The writer Josh Mcloughlin (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/josh-mcloughlin/) reflects on the art of chorography, one of English literature’s most eccentric and mercurial forms. Read by Leighton Pugh.

FURTHER READING:

The lost art of chorography | Josh Mcloughlin (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-lost-art-of-chorography/)

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Historian Damian Valdez (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/damian-valdez/) reflects on the meaning of 1975, a fateful year for the international order. Read by Leighton Pugh.

FURTHER READING:

1975, the year that made the modern world | Damian Valdez (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/1975-the-year-that-made-the-modern-world/)

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EI’s Paul Lay joins historian Tim Bouverie (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/tim-bouverie/) to discuss ‘Allies at War’, his gripping new book on how Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin’s uneasy alliance led to the end of the Second World War – and reshaped the global order in ways that are still felt today.

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Writer Luka Ivan Jukic (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/luka-ivan-jukic/) laments the all-but-total disappearance of facial hair from politics. Read by Leighton Pugh.

FURTHER READING:

What happened to the politician’s moustache? | Luka Ivan Jukic (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/what-happened-to-the-politicians-moustache/)

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Journalist and author Jenny McCartney (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/jenny-mccartney/) celebrates the magic of squalor, and explores how generations of artists have seen the sublime in slime. Read by Leighton Pugh.

FURTHER READING:

On squalor | Jenny McCartney (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/on-squalor/)

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FURTHER READING:

Why Finns joined the fight | Charly Salonius-Pasternak (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/why-finns-joined-the-fig...
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The late Christopher Coker (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/christopher-coker/) , Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics for almost 40 years, explains why, although the love of liberty is not unique to the West, the lust for liberty is. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

The West’s lust for liberty | Christopher Coker (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/t...
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Christianity and the creation of England
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In this episode of The EI Podcast, the historian Bijan Omrani (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/bijan-omrani/) is joined by EI&#39;s Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) to explore the indelible mark Christianity has left on England’s identity and culture.

FURTHER READING:

The tragic decline of Christian rituals | Bijan Omrani (https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-tragic-...
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How the liberation of France shaped the modern world
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Agnès Poirier (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/agnes-poirier/) , journalist and broadcaster, examines how the liberation of France in 1944 opened the way for Paris to become a laboratory of ideas. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

The liberation of France made the modern world | Agnès Poirier (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-liberation-of-france-made-the-modern-world/)

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EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-subtle-art-of-english-comedy/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by Michael Sheridan (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/michael-sheridan/) , author of two books on China and a foreign correspondent for 40 years, to discuss China’s rise, its subsequent entry into the international trading system, and...
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Marie Daouda (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/marie-daouda/) , lecturer in French language and literature at the University of Oxford, shows how the pursuit of apparently &#39;real&#39; desires comes at the expense of collective truth. The consequences can be disastrous. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

The truth shall set us free | Marie Daouda (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-truth-s...
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Brendan Simms (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/brendan-simms/) , founder and Director of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge, illustrates why contemporary Germany struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

The German key to European liberty | Brendan Simms (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-germ...
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The making of Trump&#39;s worldview
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What are the deep roots of Trump&#39;s worldview? Can we learn to read Trump’s behaviour? And are there opportunities to be had for those who can?

EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by Charlie Laderman (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/charlie-laderman/) , Senior Lecturer in International H...
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Iuliia Osmolovska (https://www.globsec.org/who-we-are/our-people/iuliia-osmolovska) , head of the GLOBSEC Kyiv Office, argues that Ukrainians are better placed than their Western partners to decode the Russian negotiating style. Read by Helen Lloyd.

Engelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit (https://axsonjohn...
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Liberty under attack
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Juliet Samuel (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/juliet-samuel/) , columnist for The Times newspaper, highlights that a belief in liberty is not self-evident and its expansion is not inevitable. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Liberty under attack from enemies within | Juliet Samuel (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/liberty-under-attack-from-enemies-within/)

Engelsberg Ideas (https:...
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What makes us laugh? And why should it matter?

EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) and Paul Lay (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/paul-lay/) are joined by the critic Mathew Lyons (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/mathew-lyons/) to discuss the uses of comedy.

FURTHER READING:

The subtle art of English comedy | Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/e...
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Gazing back to see China’s future
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Roel Sterckx (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/roel-sterckx/) , the Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at Cambridge University, makes the case for studying China&#39;s centuries-long history. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Gazing back to see China’s future | Roel Sterckx (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/gazing-back-to-see-chinas-future/)

Engelsberg...
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Alexander Lee (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alexander-lee/) , author of Machiavelli: His Life and Times, argues that liberty was central to the idea of Venice. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Liberty and the myth of Venice | Alexander Lee (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/liberty-and-the-myth-of-venice/)

Engelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel and ...
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Spartacus, history’s nowhere man
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Richard Miles (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/richard-miles/) , historian and archaeologist, profiles Spartacus, a figure who floats between history and allegory. Read by Helen Lloyd.

FURTHER READING:

Spartacus, history’s nowhere man | Richard Miles (https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/spartacus-historys-nowhere-man/)

Engelsberg Ideas (https://engelsbergideas.com/) is funded by the Axel a...
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The choice to enlarge NATO was a justifiable response to the geopolitics of the 1990s. The problem was how it happened.
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What makes Classical music special among the arts? And where did it come from?

To reckon with the inexhaustible complexity of the western musical tradition, its long history and the roots of its contemporary crises, EI&#39;s Alastair Benn (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/alastair-benn/) is joined by Richard Bratby (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/richard-bratby/) , the chief classical music ...
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Ukraine&#39;s rich history of resistance
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Russia&#39;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was slowed down because of determined, courageous resistance. That success also owed much to Western intelligence on the nature of the Russian attack. External support will remain crucial to the success of the Ukrainian war effort.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1739522874" data-format="short_date">Feb 14, 2025</span></span>
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