@jackfdickens

Historian and journalist. Literary Editor @EngelsbergIdeas | Email: [email protected]

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I am delighted to announce that my chapter on espionage in Central Asia and the Great Game has been published as part of this wonderful collection, ‘Spies in History’. It will be up on @EngelsbergIdeas soon. A big thank you to @_paullay and @forlaget_stolpe for the opportunity.
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My review of @tmbejan on equality in @EngelsbergIdeas engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…

The invention of equality

Teresa Bejan’s history of equality before egalitarianism locates the origins of a modern conviction in the England of the 1640s. It is an exceptional work that marks a new beginning.

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Teresa Bejan’s history of equality before egalitarianism locates the origins of a modern conviction in the England of the 1640s. It is an exceptional work that marks a new beginning. The invention of equality | @DavidWootton69 engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…

The invention of equality

Teresa Bejan’s history of equality before egalitarianism locates the origins of a modern conviction in the England of the 1640s. It is an exceptional work that marks a new beginning.

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Ukrainian soldiers returning from the frontline reveal that it is now a vast space policed by drones, in which death is a constant presence. A debrief with Ukraine’s soldiers | Peter Caddick-Adams (@militaryhistori) engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

A debrief with Ukraine’s soldiers

Ukrainian soldiers returning from the frontline reveal that it is now a vast space policed by drones, in which death is a constant presence.

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How did a German come to sit on the British throne? Jan Rüger recounts the accession of George I. 🎧The EI Podcast: The deep roots of Anglo-German relations engelsbergideas.com/podcast/…
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The Fifth Republic’s deteriorating fiscal situation offers the strongest parallel with the waning years of the Ancien Régime. Is France heading for a new 1789? | Basile Marin and Léo Marin engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

Is France heading for a new 1789?

The Fifth Republic’s deteriorating fiscal situation offers the strongest parallel with the waning years of the Ancien Régime.

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Jan Rüger on whether Imperial Germany’s ambitions made the First World War inevitable. 🎧The EI Podcast: The deep roots of Anglo-German relations engelsbergideas.com/podcast/…
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Paweł Pawlikowski’s new film shows Thomas Mann adrift in postwar Germany. The novelist had long been drawn eastwards, especially to Poland. Thomas Mann’s other fatherland | Mateusz Stróżyński engelsbergideas.com/essays/t…

Thomas Mann's other fatherland

Paweł Pawlikowski’s new film shows Thomas Mann adrift in postwar Germany. But the novelist had long been drawn eastwards – above all to Poland.

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The second part of Antonin Baudry's de Gaulle epic is a fitting tribute to the men and women who saved France. De Gaulle: I write your name | @alastair_benn engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

De Gaulle: I write your name

Antonin Baudry’s 'De Gaulle: Liberté' tells the story of the Free French’s bloody mission with undeniable emotional force.

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Friedrich Merz’s collapse in popularity owes less to his own failings than to the hollowing out of civic culture across the world’s democracies. The consumer-voter is killing German politics | @schmelter_lukas engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

The consumer-voter is killing German politics

Friedrich Merz's collapse in popularity owes less to his own failings than to the hollowing out of civic culture across the world's democracies.

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The arson attack on Limoges’s town hall destroyed centuries of history and damaged an inclusive vision of the Republic. Whether France defends it is a question for the future. All of France was in Limoges’s town hall | @murielzagha engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

All of France was in Limoges’s town hall

The arson attack on Limoges’s town hall destroyed centuries of history and damaged an inclusive vision of the Republic. Whether France defends it is a question for the future.

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A wise man once said: “Nothing in human history is inevitable - except for German counterattack!”
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Jan Rüger on whether Imperial Germany’s ambitions made the First World War inevitable. 🎧The EI Podcast: The deep roots of Anglo-German relations engelsbergideas.com/podcast/…
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Corrected proofs sent to the press. Forthcoming in March 2027! press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Those seeking to invoke Shakespeare in support of liberal causes should pay more attention to the historical context of his supposedly timeless words. Shakespeare’s riot of humanity | @infinitejesty1 engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

Shakespeare’s riot of humanity

Those seeking to invoke Shakespeare in support of liberal causes should pay more attention to the historical context of his supposedly timeless words.

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Bojan Pancevski’s account of the Nord Stream sabotage reveals an operation that foreshadowed how Ukraine would take the war to Russia. Nord Stream: another Ukrainian deep strike | @Roger_Moorhouse engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…

Nord Stream: another Ukrainian deep strike

Bojan Pancevski’s account of the Nord Stream sabotage reveals an operation that foreshadowed how Ukraine would take the war to Russia.

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North Korea’s first Great Leader, Kim Il Sung, owed as much to the charismatic Christian movements of the modern world as he did to Marxism-Leninism. The Christian genesis of North Korea’s personality cult | Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

The Christian genesis of North Korea’s personality cult

North Korea’s first Great Leader, Kim Il Sung, owed as much to the charismatic Christian movements of the modern world as he did to Marxism-Leninism.

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In Paris, the violence swirls surreally around the rhythms of French life. Darkness in the city of light | @_paullay engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

Darkness in the city of light

In Paris, the violence swirls surreally around the rhythms of French life.

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The unknown painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors | @janeecoombs engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

The unknown painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors

Though his name is all but forgotten, James Wall Finn’s paintings adorn some of Manhattan’s most beautiful rooms. Such obscurity suits a man who sought recognition only from peers and patrons.

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The reissue of Hamilton and Cairns’ celebrated edition of Plato’s dialogues shows how every translation bears the marks of its era and of its translator’s taste. The pleasures of translating Plato | @ArmandDAngour engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…

The pleasures of translating Plato

The reissue of Hamilton and Cairns’s celebrated edition of Plato’s dialogues shows how every translation bears the marks of its era and of its translator’s taste.

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