James Himberger

Managing Editor @TheNatlInterest. Catskill Tory. South Asia observer. Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo. Opinions my own.

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

My interview with the Sikyong of the self-declared #Tibetan government in exile, Penpa Tsering @SikyongPTsering in @TheNatlInterest

https://t.co/bMyDHGNPdu

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

Why is it that guys who wear half or full Windsor knots almost never wear the proper collar (spread) with it?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

I don’t know who this bloke is, but he looks like he’s stepped straight out of a different era.

The suit. The tie. The moustache. The confidence.

A proper throwback to an England that valued character, individuality and a bit of class. 👏👍✊🇬🇧👌❤️🙏

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

@BobbyBorkIII We’re closer to the Warhammer 40k reality than we think.

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

@cath_cov Disraeli in the 1840s: “What a shame the Whig oligarchy dissolved all the monasteries.”

Disraeli in the 1870s:

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

@DrMichaelBonner If anything this age looks more like Late Antiquity.

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

They put Frasier in the Backrooms

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Frasier: The Video Game. Could never get past the art gallery opening soirée level, though

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

My Grandfather fought at the Battle of the Bulge and he still loved this movie despite the glaring inaccuracies.

[Ken Gardner @KenGardner11]

Battle of the Bulge would have been an awesome WWII movie if it wasn't so painfully obvious that it was not filmed in Belgium or the Ardennes forest, much less filmed anywhere during winter.

Still, the German tank song is a real banger that almost makes up for it.

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

@ThatchEffendi The American Asabiyyah Arc

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

It’s incredible that one of the premier scholars of Roman religion was named “Numa.”

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

This book is incredible and the first time you read it you marvel at how the ancient world was entirely defined by religion and how much things have changed

Then you realize nothing has actually changed and you’ve been handed the keys to understand the world

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

@OldNewYork1664 One reason the British were opposed to colonial representation in the Lords and Commons was that it would mean too many Presbyterians in Parliament.

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

I’m not even joking when I say this may be one of the most important books to read to understand AI-induced psychosis

[Hudson Institute @HudsonInstitute]

India's rise on the global stage is consistently compared to China's.

But the lesson of China is not to distrust every rising power.

It is to distinguish between those that seek to overturn the international order and those likely to strengthen it.

And India has every reason to want the current system to endure, @bill_drexel and @dmistree write.

Read in @Diplomat_APAC: https://t.co/RDCGRiGmpL

[Jacob Heilbrunn @JacobHeilbrunn]

My look at Churchill and de Gaulle: https://t.co/mIclx36LeH @ccaryl @EdwardGLuce @Beaconsfieldist

[P A N D A M A X X E R @pandarespecter]

Name a fat guy with aura:

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

@averyfjames @mattyglesias Definition of socialism is Xi Jinping Thought

[Brendan Fraser Crane @bf_crane]

Sidestepping the question but Pilate is such a great literary character. Vain, irritated, prickled by a conscience he thought he long killed, projecting power while knowing it’s really a powder keg. “What is Truth?” as both cynical realpolitik & a genuine inching toward the light

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

Italian soldiers in World War I when their commanding officer announces his “new” tactic of “irreversible forward offensive momentum.”

[Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @ChountisFabbri]

My portrait of Alec Douglas-Home for @TheCriticMag – the most underrated Foreign Secretary of the postwar era, and a Prime Minister whose brevity has obscured his seriousness. The last grouse moor Tory, and a more interesting figure than the caricature allows.

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

It has quite definitely never been more over…

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years

“The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint.

“When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.

[James Himberger @Beaconsfieldist]

@avrilbradley23 Lowland Scottish?

[James D. Boys @jamesdboys]

Thrilled that @AndyKuchins hosted my book at @CFTNI with its historic ties to #Nixon and having hosted #Trump 2016 foreign policy paper. Thanks to @1796farewell and to @KelleyBVlahos & @Beaconsfieldist @TheNatlInterest & Amb. Negroponte.