Engelsberg ideas

What, ultimately, was the American Revolution? What was it all about? What caused it? Did it succeed? What were its long-term effects?

For many decades the answers to these questions seemed self-evident; but no longer. Answers now look rather different at a moment when

When we hear the word ‘hospitality’, we might think of the welcome shown to guests or even the ‘hospitality industry’, but interrogating its meaning brings us to the very foundation of ethics. That, for the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, is the encounter with ‘the fa...

The second Trump administration makes the American journalist Sohrab Ahmari yearn for competent technocracy. In a recent column, he gave voice to what many are perhaps thinking: ‘give us a thousand interagency briefing memos and think-tank white papers – policy formed in...

James Bedford was a psychology professor at the University of California. He died aged 73 in 1967. Well, perhaps he didn’t. He left $100,000 in his will to cover the costs of having his body ‘cryopreserved’ – frozen down to 196 degrees and stored in a liquid nitrogen tank –&nb...

Charles III’s visit to the United States offers a rare chance to strengthen diplomatic ties at a critical moment for the western alliance. To make a success of it, he will need to pick the right royal role model.

The king will address Congre...