Australia stands at the forefront of democratic resistance against China's expanding influence, reshaping its strategy and alliances to meet the challenges of a contested Indo-Pacific. The Australian way of war and peace | Rory Medcalf engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-aus…

The illusory search for a lost civilisation | Christopher Hale engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-i…

A new study points towards the persistence of human interest in cultivating sound. The invention of music | Armand D'Angour engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-in…

Why children eat books up | Jem Wikeley engelsbergideas.com/reviews/why-ch…

Just thrilled with this sympathetic review, spot on about what I was trying to do, from Engelsberg Ideas engelsbergideas.com/reviews/why-ch…

🎙️EI Talks... the search for a promised land | Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts 🗣️EI's Alastair Benn speaks to Rachel Cockerell, author of Melting Point, a history of the quest for a Jewish homeland, weaving memoir, documentary, and literature. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ei-…

I really enjoyed this discussion with Rachel. A terrific journey through the history of the quest for a Jewish homeland. For Engelsberg Ideas podcasts. Listen in!

How censorship conquered the world, again | Prof David Wootton 🇺🇦🇮🇱 engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-cen…

This was fun. On The Haunted Wood, Sam Leith 🐝's excellent new 'history of childhood reading'. Which, as it happens, is out today...

Henri Bergson, philosopher à la mode | Emily is writing a book engelsbergideas.com/portraits/henr…

War and the Proms | Benjamin Poore engelsbergideas.com/reviews/war-an…

I wrote a portrait of my main guy, the one and only Henri Bergson, for Engelsberg Ideas

My interview with Rachel Cockerell on her terrific book, Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land (on the #BGPrize2024 Baillie Gifford Prize longlist), is now live on the Engelsberg Ideas YouTube channel. youtube.com/watch?v=DAps2l…

I wrote a portrait of Bergson for Engelsberg Ideas, a little taste of my forthcoming biography of Bergson Herald of a Restless World (which is available for preorder here linktr.ee/eherring) Henri Bergson, philosopher à la mode engelsbergideas.com/portraits/henr…

The history of the Proms, the world's largest classical music festival, has been profoundly shaped by conflict, both past and present. War and the Proms | Benjamin Poore engelsbergideas.com/reviews/war-an…

Missing the point about Byron | Robert Thicknesse engelsbergideas.com/notebook/missi…

What is a tyrant? | Edmund Stewart engelsbergideas.com/notebook/what-…

Dumbarton Oaks: creating a new world order | Andrew Ehrhardt engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-les…

Thanks to Engelsberg Ideas and Alastair Benn for publishing this piece. On the 80th anniversary of the Dumbarton Oaks conference, I wanted to return to some of the original plans.