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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
