David Bell – The Election in Split Screen
For the past couple of weeks, the presidential election has been stuck in a strange sort of split screen, as both candidates find themselves unwilling participants in dramas whose outcome […]
Germany’s Energy Transition
Book Review: Stephen Gross, Energy And Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change, Oxford University Press, 2023 Image Credit: Oxford University Press Achieving a new […]
The Need to Enlighten the Woke
Susan Neiman, Left is Not Woke (Polity Press, 2023) Image Credit: Polity Press In Left is Not Woke, Susan Neiman wades into the ongoing debate over the concept of […]
Poll Position
Tony Barber of the Financial Times has kindly cited one of my posts here. Barber includes a recent poll of présidentiables ranked by favorability, which alarmingly places Le Pen and Bardella […]
David Bell – Alvin Bragg’s Trump Case
As I have written here before, much of the presidential election of 2024 will not take place on the campaign trail, but in courtrooms. This will be particularly true over […]
Author Response: Ireland, Empire, and the future of Europe
** This is James Stafford’s response to our forum on his book The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848.** By James Stafford I’d like to start, […]
Ireland and the Enlightenment’s global history
** This is the second in a series of three reviews of James Stafford’s The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Each day this week one review […]
The Case of Ireland and the Case of Britain
** This is the second in a series of three reviews of James Stafford’s The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Each day this week one review […]
The Enlightenment’s national contexts in global perspective
** This is the first in a series of three reviews of James Stafford’s The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848. Each day this week one review […]
Le Bal des Prétendants
Yes, I know, the next presidential election is still eons away, but le bal des prétendants was already well under way when the orchestra struck several false notes. First, it was revealed […]