Sitemap - 2024 - Burning Archive
12 Gifts of 2024 on my Substack
Three historic changes in 2024: West Asia, India, & AI
Korea Crisis: Deep causes of the real crisis of Korea and US power
Anxiety about Russia after American Primacy
Unlimited Empire and America’s Unipolar Illusion
Chinese History after the ‘Thucydides Trap’
China never entered the Thucydides Trap that US history invented.
Undeclared Empires (USA & USSR) in the Cold War
India, after the postwar world order
How decolonization shaped the postwar world order
Before the World Changed: Reading Tagore's Prescient 1941 Essay
Europe after the postwar world order
How the partition of Eurasia defined world disorder after 1945
USA dreams in the world, after American Primacy
Will Trump end the American-led post-war world order?
John Darwin After Tamerlane and the Post-1945 World
Imagine a world free of nations
How the post-1945 world order began in disorder
A world of unequal nations after the American Century
Poets and history writers are émigrés
How my thinking on the world crisis has changed
Olga Tokarczuk as a writer on history
How to make sense of a world crisis
How the tides of globalisation turned against the West - Part 3
Olga Tokarczuk, The Tender Narrator
Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
How the tides of globalisation turned against the West - Part Two
Olga Tokarczuk's tender narrator of Nobel histories
How the tides of globalisation turned against the West
How the history of emotions can heal childhood sexual abuse
The 2024 Abuse Scandal that Rewrote Alice Munro's Nobel Legacy
Fantastic journeys through history
Marina Tsvetaeva, The Poet in Time
How Elfriede Jelinek unleashed language to smash society's cliches.
How to face monstrous world events and not turn your heart into stone
Inga Clendinnen, Representing the Holocaust
No end of fun with Wisława Szymborska
The fall of the US dollar and global power?
Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize for Literature 1995
How to talk intelligently about population “collapse”, fertility and IVF
Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality
Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the history that inspired "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
The Psychology of Conflict: A Must-Read Book Review (Overy, “Why War?”)
Who do you want to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024?
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, 1975 to 1981
120 Nobels Challenge Workshop 1930 to 1969
Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality III
Which Nobel Laureate from 1930 to 1969 would you want to have dinner with?
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, 1968 to 1974
Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: Globalisation
Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: Great Power Narratives
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Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality II
What memories does rereading favourite writers prompt for you?
Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: Power Players
Imagine you are a Foreign Minister: 7 Power Factors
Isaiah Berlin, The Sense of Reality (Part 1)
Diplomats as writers -120 Nobels Archive Reading Thread, 4/8/24
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, Laxness to Andrić (1955-1961)
Imagine you are a Foreign Minister - International Politics
Imagine you are a Foreign Minister - Geography
Winston Churchill, the writer. 120 Nobels Archive Reading Thread, 28/7/24
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, T.S. Eliot to Hemingway (1948-1954)
Imagine you are a Foreign Minister. Myths of Geopolitics
Isaiah Berlin, On Political Judgment
120 Nobels Challenge 1937 to 1947 Chat
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners, 1937-1947
NATO at 75: the astonishing true history of secrets, lies and empires
120 Literature Nobels Challenge: first 30 years of famous, favourite & forgotten
120 Nobels Archive Reading Thread 14/7/24
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1929-36)
First workshop of the 120 Nobels Challenge
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Workshop
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1922-28)
American Nihilism & NATO's Defeat
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1915-21)
Niall Ferguson on collapses: Soviet Union and USA
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1907 to 1913)
The West fails to change the tides of history
Forgotten, Famous and Favourite Nobel Literature Prize Winners (1901-1906)
Imagine a world free of the idea of nation
120 Days of Nobels Literary Pilgrimage
Tagore and the decay of the West
The silence of the bureaucrats
Soviet Collapse and the Unipolar Moment
Why Jordan Peterson is wrong on the "German Problem"
What and how I write on Substack
"The era of US dominance has ended"
Anomie Today and Prospects of Cultural Renewal
Chōmei, Hōjōki, or how to respond when the world is collapsing
Babylon Berlin, modernism & history
Myths of the post-1945 world order
Is Ukraine the West's ‘Suez Moment’?
How to mend our broken Asian heart
The Great Confinement and How I Am
Why did Australia misunderstand the multipolar world?
How did Multicultural Australia Misread the Multipolar World?
When Ancient Civilisations become Modern Great Powers
How India sees the multipolar world clearly
Essays on the history of destruction
Is Western civilization a myth?
Could culture be one road to peace?
Australia in a multipolar world
BOOK REVIEW: Sakwa, The Lost Peace
An invitation to explore world history
Globalisation in the 19th century multipolar world
Serious conversations, or talk shows?
3 Russian history lessons from the Tucker Putin interview
The West has lost the will for peace
Will the West reconcile to peace and defeat?
Welcome to the Burning Archive
The world was always multipolar
The Changing Tides of Globalization
Historians and prophets at Davos