Caitlin Allen

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🎧The EI Podcast: The making of Xi Jinping’s worldview Rana Mitter explores Xi Jinping’s personal and ideological mindset in conversation with EI’s @jackfdickens engelsbergideas.com/podcast/ei-tal…

🎧The EI Podcast: Hamlet Unravelled Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, explores Hamlet and its rich critical history with EI’s @alastair_benn and @_paullay. audioboom.com/posts/8860382-…

In a post-literate world, reading is treated more like an assumed good than a skill to be actively practised. My latest for @EngelsbergIdeas: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-p…

Read Charlotte’s beautiful review for @EngelsbergIdeas of @MortenHoiJensen’s new book on 'The Magic Mountain'. Essential reading for the Thomas Mann-minded.

Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas highlight the books they’ve enjoyed in 2025. engelsbergideas.com/reviews/books-…

My piece for EI on the hundreds of thousands of Eastern European children seized from their families during Nazi rule, many of whom are thought to be alive today and still living in Germany, entirely unconscious of their origins.

Progress has been made recently to tackle fentanyl overdose deaths in the US, prior to Trump’s return to the Oval Office, writes Caitlin Allen. (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/p/will-trumps-…

China will struggle to reverse its demographic crisis | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/p/china-will-s…

Yoon's arrest shows South Korea's fragile democracy has prevailed - just | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/p/yoons-arrest…

How should the West handle Assad’s successor? | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/p/how-should-t…

Fears grow over potentially devastating impact of Israel’s UNRWA ban | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reactionpolitics.substack.com/p/fears-grow-o…

Will Starmer act upon damning Grenfell report? | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/will-starmer-a…

NEW: Sperm donor anonymity has been lifted in the U.K. and New Zealand — which means donor children can now track down their biological fathers. @caitlinnittho reports for @newlinesmag newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-…

Why is Modi visiting Ukraine now? | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/why-is-modi-vi…

Nicknamed “banker to the poor”, Muhammad Yunus is lauded for his pioneering use of micro-loans, credited with helping to lift millions of Bangladeshis out of poverty | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/bangladesh-can…

Time to fix the scandalous student loan racket | The Editorial Board reaction.life/time-to-fix-th…

Shock Indian election results: Modi set to lose majority | Caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/shock-india-el…

Brilliant piece by @caitlinnittho on Georgia’s booming surrogacy industrial complex. Ukraine used to be a major exporter of surrogate babies, but when Russia invaded, embryos were shipped from war-torn Kyiv to Tbilisi to be implanted into Georgian women who are paid $20k a pop

Sunak under pressure to stop Israeli arms sales | caitlin Allen (@caitlinnittho) reaction.life/sunak-under-pr…