Engelsberg Ideas

In dismissing the Kremlin’s idea of a three-way summit, Trump and Xi have made clear that dividing up the world is far above the Russian president’s pay grade.

Why Shenzhen will be no Yalta | @owenmatth

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The V&A’s new exhibition offers a dream of the city that would become Istanbul, pieced together from fragments scattered across a millennium and a half of history.

The dream of Constantinople | @MathewJLyons

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The late-medieval painter infused sacred art with secular details, allowing us to view the Renaissance through a Scandinavian lens.

Albertus Pictor’s Nordic Renaissance | James Blake Wiener

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The most accomplished ‘trad wives’ are entertainers with a shrewd sense of the market.

The triumph of the trad wives | @realzoestrimpel

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🎧The EI Podcast: John Bew on British Realpolitik

John Bew on the ‘hard-headed lessons’ that today’s leaders can learn from studying the past.
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