18+ hour, 52+ min 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…...

18+ hour, 56+ min 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+ day, 15+ 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…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (739+ words) Engelsberg Ideas Hockney's art of looking Seen through the Bradford-born artist's eyes, the world will always be endlessly beautiful. His death on 11 June leaves an irreparable hole at the heart of the art world. Hockney was an artist who resonated…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1132+ words) Brigita Van den Houta is an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge reading Land Economy. She has recently co-authored an article on the Joint Expeditionary Force with Professor Brendan Simms (Centre of Geopolitics, Cambridge) and continues to work on further…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (473+ words) A new collection of essays revisits the life of a s'ance-holding Presbyterian bachelor whom historians routinely rank as Canada's greatest prime minister, yet one largely ignored by his countrymen. The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King, edited by Patrice Dutil, UBC…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1124+ words) Engelsberg Ideas Slavery was the air the Romans breathed With no first-person narratives surviving, Emma Southon draws skilfully on epigraphy to recover the lives of enslaved Romans. But her thin treatment of Roman comedy leaves a valuable source underexplored. Servus:…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (157+ words) Spufford's new novel conjures a wartime London at once enchanting and terrifying, alive with metamorphic possibility. Nonesuch, Francis Spufford, Faber, "20 "Art needs explanation sometimes, a character says early on in Nonesuch, the latest novel from Francis Spufford. "But does this?...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (183+ words) Throughout the Cold War, Sweden pursued a shrewd diplomatic strategy in the Baltic, calming tensions between the superpowers while quietly aligning itself with the democratic West. The northern and southern flanks were not prioritised, compared to the central western European…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (943+ words) Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas share the books they've enjoyed in the summers of their lives. Bryan Appleyard, journalist and author Stoner by John Williams is a novel about a man who was brought up as a farmer and becomes a…...