6+ hour, 15+ min ago  (202+ words) The German naturalist rejected the racial classifications of his age, and his capacity for forgiveness was almost inhuman. Andrea Wulf lets the reader bask in his sensitive apprehension of the world. The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (371+ words) A World Cup in Rinus Michels" image Engelsberg Ideas A World Cup in Rinus Michels" image The Dutch master's revolution has conquered football so completely that almost every major footballing nation aspires to play in his style. The World Cup,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (320+ words) Through his rigorous archival work and sense of moral duty, the Austrian investigative journalist Hubertus Czernin was able to confront his country's complicity in the horrors of the Third Reich. His investigations into this steady process of rehabilitation were among…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (495+ words) The late-18th-century British political system was shaken by a series of domestic and imperial crises, unleashing a period of turbulence only settled by a prime minister who combined skill and vision with pragmatism and responsibility. As Britain is about…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (328+ words) Secessionists in America's South were convinced that Britain's mills could not survive without their cotton. They had not reckoned with how adaptable an economy under strain can be. And yet, as the war began in the summer of 1861, many in…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (226+ words) The new craze for biblical eating has roots in two centuries of American Christian food culture. A recent viral diet trend, or what passes for one, is biblical eating, namely following a diet of foods mentioned, or of the sort…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (626+ words) To the English novelist E. M. Forster, Gulliver's Travels was "Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land'. For George Orwell, a staunch devotee of the book, Jonathan Swift's crowning masterpiece was an attack on humanity, written by a man he described as "a Tory…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (198+ words) Ukraine's resistance to Russian maritime coercion offers a template for how states committed to freedom of navigation can deter those who threaten it. Freedom of navigation is foundational to international trade, underpinning much of the global economy. The rise of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (181+ words) Russell Kirk was an exceptional kind of conservative intellectual, talented and blessed with a practical bent, who revealed the poetic sensibility that inspired some of America's greatest political figures. On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776, Russell Kirk, edited…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (1231+ words) Engelsberg Ideas How Trump's America is remaking global trade In his drive to compete with China, President Trump has used bilateral trade deals to pursue geopolitical goals, accelerating the World Trade Organization's slide into irrelevance. The world trading system, it's…...