David M. Lehmann

The Financial Times has updated the list of 50 academic publications it uses to assess high quality research produced by scholars in leading business schools around the world. ft.com/ft50-journals

#DonnerstagDelights: At our event in Oxford last week, we saw a whole array of fascinating books and pieces collected by the Taylor Institution Library and Bodleian Library… including this original menu of the Deutsche Wohltätigkeits-Gesellschaft’s 92nd Anniversary in 1910!

Akten der Hitler-Regierung nun online recherchierbar. Unter aktenreichskanzlei.bundesarchiv.de kann in Dokumenten der Regierungen d. Weimarer Republik & d. ersten Jahre d. NS-Zeit recherchiert werden. Gestern wurde die Online-Edition in der @bbaw_de vorgestellt. aktenreichskanzlei.bundesarchiv.de

Have you started CS50 for Business yet? This newest course from CS50 covers a broad range of topics, from algorithms and data structures to artificial intelligence (AI), perfect for decision-makers of today and tomorrow. The entire course is available on YouTube for free at cs50.ly/business. To take this course for a certificate, register at cs50.edx.org/business.

Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022. © All Rights Reserved.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

Why are Liberals more anxious, depressed, and diagnosed with mental disorders than Conservatives? Musa al-Gharbi @Musa_alGharbi reviews the hypotheses and evidence - American Affairs Journal americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/03/how-to…

Earthset. The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.

Germany is celebrating the late Queen! A special stamp marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday on 21 April. It honours her legacy and work towards reconciliation between the UK and Germany.

A lost Anglo-German Club in London clubland.substack.com/p/lost-clubs-t… by @SAThevoz

Just a reminder that in China, there is only energy addition, not an energy transition.

“What I am afraid of is that people will get disappointed because what we can know in the field of economics is so much less than people aspire to.” — Friedrich Hayek

Composed in 1638, Allegri’s Miserere was originally intended to only be sung during Holy Week, and to never leave the Sistine Chapel in order to preserve the mystery of the music. Here it is performed by St Paul’s Cathedral Choir.

The Berlin Document Center’s NSDAP archive is now partially online. With ~16 million digitised records, it offers a substantial empirical basis for analysing party membership, affiliated professions, and internal disciplinary structures in Nazi Germany. catalog.archives.gov/id/12044361

A fun project at the intersection of policy and information systems. Interesting to read through the reasons why the LLM recommends keeping or removing regulations—and impressive to see the sheer amount of bureaucracy the European Union has produced over the years.

Jürgen Habermas' enduring work began in the coffee-houses of Georgian London. His deepest insight was, in the end, a conservative one. Jürgen Habermas’ lost world: the coffee-house and the public sphere | @ChountisFabbri engelsbergideas.com/essays/jurgen-…

For decades, peer review has been treated as the gold standard of scientific validation. Yet many scientists know the reality: the system is far from perfect. Peer review is broken and sometimes even corrupted. The process can be slow, inconsistent, and vulnerable to bias. Reviewers are sometimes asked to judge work outside their true expertise. In other cases, they may be evaluating ideas that challenge the very paradigm in which they were trained. And occasionally, reviewers are simply competitors. Ironically, the most prestigious journals can also be the most conservative. Truly new ideas are often met with skepticism, while safer work that fits the current narrative moves more easily through the system. Increasingly, papers are judged less by the originality of the idea and more by the volume of data, the sophistication of statistics, and the beauty of the figures. Science risks becoming data-rich but idea-poor. But there is an important reality to remember: journals do not ultimately decide the impact of scientific work. Impact is decided later, by the community. By the scientists who read it, test it, debate it, and cite it. In the end, citations and ideas determine the legacy of a paper, not the impact factor of the journal that first published it. Science has always advanced by questioning assumptions. Perhaps it is time we also question the system that filters scientific ideas.

You can now bet on German train delays

FT ranking: Europe’s leading start-up hubs 2026 via @FT ft.com/content/ab0548…

Fantastic piece from @shaunwalker7 about the intelligence build up to invasion. Well worth your time. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…