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The growing pains of Graham Greene

17 hours ago | engelsbergideas.com | Malcolm Forbes

One hundred years ago, Graham Greene was an Oxford history undergraduate whose standard student activities were complemented, and often complicated, by a dizzying range of extracurricular pursuits. When not attending tutorials, writing essays or getting drunk, Greene was dabbling in acting, flirting with espionage, taking part in debates, editing a literary magazine, planning a programme for the BBC, falling headlong in love, and chancing his luck and risking his life by playing Russian roulette.
China and America, the great decoupling

1 week ago | engelsbergideas.com | Michael Sheridan

The long run, a phrase associated with John Maynard Keynes, is not in favour at the moment. In world trade, however, history shows it is the thing that counts. The founder of modern Singapore, the late Lee Kuan Yew, explained it like this in the 1990s, when China stood on the threshold of globalisation.
When free trade falters

1 week ago | engelsbergideas.com | Duncan Weldon

At his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump took a moment to right what he considers to be an historical wrong. The Alaska mountain, officially rechristened as Mount Denali by the Obama administration a decade ago, would be re-dubbed Mount McKinley in honour of William McKinley, the 25th President. The memory of McKinley has become something of a touchstone in the new president’s second term.
Canada cannot escape geopolitics

2 weeks ago | engelsbergideas.com | Michael Ledger-Lomas

Mounting trade deficits have convinced the president of the United States that ‘we have too long acted as Uncle Sugar and now we’ve got to be Uncle Sam’. The ten per cent surcharge he plans to impose on imports of manufactured goods from across the world will devastate Canada, because most of its exports go to the United States and its prosperity is particularly dependent on its cross-border automobile industry.
How the Young Turks became tyrants

2 weeks ago | engelsbergideas.com | Jack Dickens

On 24 July 1908, a wave of celebrations swept across the Ottoman Empire. In town squares and city streets from the Balkans to Anatolia and the Levant, vast crowds gathered, while sprawling red and white banners heralded the beginning of a new era of ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and Justice’.
Is this free speech?

3 weeks ago | engelsbergideas.com | Peter Hoskin

What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala (Allen Lane, 480 pages, £30)Freedom of speech is never done with us, and we are never done with it. This is always true, but somehow it seems even more true at the moment. You need only log on to Elon Musk’s X to see how theories of free expression are tested every millisecond of every 21st-century day, often to breaking point.
Regime change and the breaking of alliances

1 month ago | engelsbergideas.com | David Priess

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is in crisis. Just over a year after Lloyd Austin, then the US defence secretary, called it ‘the most powerful and successful alliance in history’, a new administration in Washington has cast doubt on America’s commitment to European defence.
Reading the map of love

1 month ago | engelsbergideas.com | Muriel Zagha

Who doesn’t love a map? Especially, perhaps, a fictional one that represents a place of the imagination, a dreamland, a form of utopia. An unusual example of this type of cartography appeared in France in the mid-17th century: the , a map of the imaginary land of Tender designed to chart the progress of love. Imagined by the author Madeleine de Scudéry, the map was published in 1654 with the first volume of her romance Clélie.
What the Taliban did next

1 month ago | engelsbergideas.com | Christopher Silvester

In Hollywoodgate, Egyptian director Ibrahim Nash’at, takes a fly-on-the-wall approach to observe what the Taliban did with some of the $7 billion of military hardware left behind by the Americans when they scrambled to withdraw from Afghanistan in August 2021. (You can watch Hollywoodgate on the BBC iPlayer.)To get the misleading title of Nash’at’s film out of the way, it is named after ‘Hollywood Gate 1’, the entrance to the Kabul Airbase, where much of the narrative unfolds.
Interest rates, mankind’s greatest invention

1 month ago | engelsbergideas.com | Edward Chancellor

‘Interest, the great guide of commerce, is not a blind one. It is very well able to find its own way; and its necessities are its best laws.’Edmund Burke, speech to the House of Commons, February 1780The complex operation of how goods come into existence in a modern market economy is famously described in Leonard Read’s 1958 essay ‘I, Pencil’.