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
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars