Engelsberg ideas

Most pitches I now receive are clearly leeched from large language models (LLM). About once a week I come across an article in a magazine, or a newspaper, that clearly depends on artificial intelligence. One of the more subtle clues is the way writers rel

Haydn's piano sonatas should be better known - and more frequently played than they are - elegant trifles they are not. There are some very good complete surveys of these endlessly satisfying, truly classical works, the best probably being Ronald Brautiga

This summer, the United States of America is celebrating the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. Or at least it's trying. Perhaps, in other circumstances, it might have been a glorious commemoration of the ideals which drove that astonis

Zhou Enlai did not actually reply 'It's too early to tell' when asked about the long-term effects of the French Revolution. The question posed to the Chinese premier during his talks with Henry Kissinger in 1972 concerned the protest movement of May 1968.