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Europe

Lenin’s Critics

Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-95) viewed the 1789 French Revolution as a symbol of the demise of feudalism and inauguration of a bourgeois society which eventually would be dislodged by the socialist revolution.

Good luck, Europe if Trump returns

Traveling in the deepest jungles of Sabah on the island of Borneo last week kept my mind sane from the daily bombardment of crises news from around the world.

Europe’s age of abundance may be ending

Emmanuel Macron, the man who has led France since 2017, gave an ominous speech at a cabinet meeting before he left his country to attend the funeral of the recently expired Queen of England.

Monuments and memories

Public memory is not uniform or static. Statues and memorials erected in the years after the second world war are prime examples.