David Engels
David Engels is chair of Roman History at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and senior analyst at the Instytut Zachodni in Poznań. He is the author of Le Déclin: La crise de l'Union européenne et la chute de la république romaine, analogies historiques.
What the Polish election means
It has major implications for conservatism and left-liberalism in Europe
Between Middle Earth and the West
130 years from his birth, what can we learn from Tolkien?
Tomorrow in Poland
“Konfederacja” and PiS are predestined partners in the attempt to protect Poland’s identity and learn from the West’s mistakes
Ongoing lessons from the Battle of Warsaw
After the Miracle at the Vistula, a Miracle at the Oder?
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Ukraine’s dangerous friends
The embattled nation must resist the siren song of possible NATO membership
The EU is overregulating AI
Caution and control are being overemphasised above economic and technological opportunity
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
The British Holocaust cover-up that wasn’t
A fanciful and convoluted conspiracy theory has blighted the reputation of the Channel Islands
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already