Ronald Asch
Ronald G. Asch, now retired, held until last year the chair of early modern history in the university of Freiburg. He has published widely on 16th and 17th century European and British history, including the origins of the Thirty Years War and on the history of kingship and of nobilities as a social and cultural elite. He tweets at @aschronald
The end of German stability?
Years of complacency has seen right wing populism surge in the holy land of centrism
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity