My take on Habermas and the 18th century coffee house for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
Today’s Oxfam bookstore catch…
A light Sunday read on the blessings and evils of Namierite historiography regarding the eighteenth century.
A wonderfully productive day researching in the Wentworth Woodhouse archives, thanks to the remarkable staff and volunteers.
Suez at 70.
The standard morality tale blames Eden’s deception. But the deeper lesson is about alliance asymmetry: Britain discovered it couldn’t rely on the “Special Relationship” to simulate being a great power.
My new essay for
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Nietzsche believed in slow reading: attentive, effortful, and transformative. This was the essence of his philosophy of reading against the rush of modern life. @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
Macmillan played Greece to America’s Rome. Wilson refused Vietnam. Thatcher fought the Falklands regardless of Washington. Blair surrendered for a seat at the table. Starmer inherits the “SR” language, not the leverage.
My latest for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social
This is not a left-right problem. It is a legitimacy crisis.
✍️ Ioannes-Fabbri Chountis explains why commentators eager to look at the Gorton and Denton by-election through the lens of party politics are missing the real lesson. One common thread united the campaigns of both the Greens and Reform.
Edward Gibbon’s 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' was published 250 years ago. Its arguments remain as pertinent as ever.
Edward Gibbon’s empire | Sumantra Maitra
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My review of @rosscarroll.bsky.social excellent book on Edmund Burke in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. @bsecs.bsky.social
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Jürgen Habermas' enduring work began in the coffee-houses of Georgian London. His deepest insight was, in the end, a conservative one.
Jürgen Habermas’ lost world: the coffee-house and the public sphere | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social
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The EI Podcast: Nietzsche’s manifesto for reading
Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri (@chountisdefabbri.bsky.social) on reading as an antidote to the restless spirit of the industrial age.
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The Suez Crisis marked the moment when British statesmen realised that they could no longer rely on the American alliance to simulate being a great power.
Britain’s Suez catastrophe | Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri
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The alliance between Britain and the United States worked best when the former had leverage of its own.
The Special Relationship in a world of hard power | @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social
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Jürgen Habermas' enduring work began in the coffee-houses of Georgian London. His deepest insight was, in the end, a conservative one.
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The Suez Crisis, a severe geopolitical shock for all of Europe, marked the moment when British statesmen realised that they could no longer rely on the American alliance to simulate being a great powe...
Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri (https://engelsbergideas.com/author/ioannes-chountis-de-fabbri/) on reading as an antidote to the restless spirit of the industrial age. Read by Leighton Pugh.
