Sitemap - 2023 - Burning Archive
129. Year in Review and Summer of Civilizations
How will history remember 2023?
Napoleon: movies, myths and histories.
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Patrick White and the stranger effect
What I learned reading Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob.
Kissinger is Dead. Is US diplomacy dead too?
126. How the Mongol Horde Changed the World
Napoleon, Kissinger, and World History
How the Mongol Horde Changed the World
Burning Archive YouTube Channel
The Era of non-Western Globalisation has Begun
American Psycho Trips in San Francisco
125. How to spot bad histories in narratives of geopolitics.
124. Beowulf. How a legend was saved from the fire.
117. History of the Nobel Prize for Literature and 2022 Winner Annie Ernaux
The Global South will never trust US again
123. In a time of war, nurture empathy with history
The price of great historical transformations
122. Six Intriguing New History Books from the Wolfson History Prize. Please Discuss.
121. Jon Fosse's Slow Prose. My reaction to 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature Announcement
Patrick White, Nobel Prize and Australia’s aborted cultural decolonisation
The Moral Darkness of Standing with Ukraine
120. Why read Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature?
"Reform or rupture"at the UN General Assembly
119. Why read Patrick White, 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Exile at Home?
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The economic consequences of the polycrisis
Glimpses of the multipolar world, 16 September 2023
118. Why read WB Yeats, Winner of 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Quick update on World Crisis, Economy
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 9 September 2023
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 2 September 2023
116. Professions vs. Managers. The rise and fall of the professions. Interview with Hannah Forsyth
Glimpses of the Multipolar World (BRICS Summit edition), 25 August 2023
115. Exploring World History with Leading Historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Part 2
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 19 August 2023
114. Exploring World History with Leading Historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Part 1
World Crisis of Too Much Change
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 12 August 2023
113. Can we cope if everything changes all at once?
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 5 August 2023
112. Social differences, elite competition and political breakdown
World Crisis: Social Fragmentation, Part Two, Is Peter Turchin right about social collapse?
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 29 July 2023
111. Four Social Changes Unsettling the Modern World
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 22 July 2023
110. Social Progress, Collapse and Fragmentation - 7 changes that define the modern world
13 Days of Looking at a Bureaucrat 4.
13 Days of Looking at a Bureaucrat 3.
13 Days of Looking at a Bureaucrat 2.
13 Days of Looking at a Bureaucrat, 1. Entering the Maze of Power
World Crisis - Social Progress vs Social Fragmentation
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 15 July 2023
109. NATO in Vilnius - What does it mean?
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 8 July 2023
108. Atlantic Romantics, Part II: How NATO emerged from Atlantic History
World Crisis - Political Disorder
The Singer at the Enigmatic Death of Ivan IV ('the Terrible')
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 1 July 2023
107. Atlantic Romantics, Part I: Will NATO’s Special Relationship break up?
The Lesson for Western elites from the Prigozhin Affair
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The parasite state of consultants
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 24 June 2023
106. How do ideas of Eurasia influence world politics and history today? Eurasia Part II.
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 17 June 2023
105. Why is Eurasia so important in world history and geopolitics today?
World Crisis - Empires and Nations
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 10 June 2023
104. Lost in the Indo-Pacific - Strategy, Oceans, History or Illusion?
Australia, Little Country Lost
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 3 June 2023
103. World Crisis, Polycrisis, or Another Day at the Office?
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 27 May 2023
102. Modi in Sydney, and the Indian Way to Reform the United Nations
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 20 May 2023
101. Mental Illness. Government Failure. Human Imperfection.
The crooked timber of an unhappy, dangerous American Empire
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 13 May 2023
Burning Archive Podcast Listener Game
100. Special Commemorative 100th Episode and Listener Game
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 6 May 2023
99. Fear and Loathing After Pandemic Democracy
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 29 April 2023
98. Madness and Western Civilization, Today
The True History of the Bureaucracy Gang
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 22 April 2023
97. Macron, European Sovereignty, and Reflections on a Philosopher President
New article on the World vs America
Glimpses of the Multipolar World, 15 April 2023
96. France’s People’s Revolt on Pensions. Tricoleur Revolution?
The failure of institutions in the pandemic crisis
Glimpses of the Multipolar World
95. The End of the US Dollar Empire?
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World
94. Bank Collapses and Political Crises. Calm or Contagion?
How Australia could pivot from USA to India
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World
93. The Health of Western Democracy Through the Eyes of China
92. India. Mother of Democracy
Glimpses of the Multipolar World
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World
Is Democracy Losing the War in Ukraine
89. Is Democracy Losing the War in Ukraine?
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World
Are you reading a history book at the moment?
88. 13 Ways of Looking at a Bureaucrat. How I wrote my upcoming book.
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World
87. How I, a very minor government official, wrote and published my poetry book
Seven Glimpses of the Multipolar World
86. How I wrote and published my book, From the Burning Archive, while working full-time
Glimpses from the Multipolar World
Welcome to My Refreshed Newsletter
85. How India is becoming the real leader of the free and fair world.
83. STOP Thinking the War in Ukraine is the Start of World War 3 - even if Emmanuel Todd said it was
82. Six Histories of the War in Ukraine in Search of Dialogue and Diplomacy
Staying Sane during the War in Ukraine
81. The Ukraine Conflict - How to stay sane when different narratives of the war conflict.
80. Who is winning the war in Ukraine - Ukraine, Russia or NATO?
79. The War in Ukraine - the whole story to the end of 2022.