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  Gdynia and the dream of a maritime Poland

  A century ago, a Baltic fishing village began its transformation into a bustling port. Gdynia embodied interwar Poland’s modernising ambitions, but it could not guarantee the country’s security.

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  Joshua Wong, heir to the Cold War dissidents

  The cross-border friendships that sustained opposition in the Soviet bloc suggest that not all is lost for Asia's new generation of activists.

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• EEngelsberg ideas2026-10-14✓ Read

  Persona: Ingmar Bergman’s stone-cold classic

  Essential reading, viewing, and listening from the EI editors. I first saw Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, his stone-cold classic of 1965, as a teenager, and God knows how many times I have seen it since. It has the greatest opening sequence in cinema: a percussive, rapid-fire montage that can never be wholly accommodated or understood. The film’s story is, however, a simple one (even if its Jungian resonances are deep and complex).

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  Islam’s own Enlightenment

  Sufi thinkers such as ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi championed toleration and independence of thought long before Europeans brought their Enlightenment to the Muslim world.

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• EEngelsberg ideas2026-10-13✓ Read

  Catherine of Siena, saint and stateswoman

  Best known as a saint and mystic, Catherine of Siena was also an influential political thinker who sought to reshape civic life in the Italian city states.

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  Star Wars and the dawning techno-empire

  A neglected storyline in ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ offers a glimpse of our future: imperial, technologically advanced and undemocratic.

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