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 fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
Keystones of Britain’s history
Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry