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?
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?