# Edward Grey

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The Poisoned Chalice: Sir Edward Grey's Diplomacy and the Death of the Concert of Europe

What if the man who worked hardest to prevent a continental war was also the one whose actions made it inevitable? In the summer of 1914, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey stood as the last guardian of the old European order, a system of diplomacy known as the "Concert of Europe." Yet, bene…

Prussian Socialism Episode 38: The German Mindset vs the English in Werner Sombart's "Traders and Heroes"

In "Traders and Heroes" (1915) German economist Werner Sombart argued that the German "heroic" attitude is better than the English "mercantile" way of life. Whereas the merchant asks, "Life, what can you give me?", the hero asks, "What can I give life?". The hero lives for duty, the trader lives fo…

3rd August 1914: Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, remarked that “The lamps are going out all over Europe…”

As Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey had attempted to prevent the crisis but these efforts proved unsuccessful and, during the evening of 3 August, he reportedly remarked, “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our ...

473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)

“We have been forced to draw the sword”. Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturday 25th July 1914, the Kaiser and the Tsar - friends and cousins, long desirous of peace between their two nations - found themselves in a new and highly precarious situation. Even so, there was still a wi…

472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4)

On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, read them the Ultimatum handed to Serbia by the Austro-Hungarian Empire the day before. The world held its breath, awaiting Serbia’s response. With Germany determined to stand by Aus…

469. The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)

By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at war with Serbia, Russia with Germany, and an ultimatum had been handed to Belgium. The July crisis had resolved itself in the most calamitous way possible. But how did this state of affairs erupt from …

473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)

"We have been forced to draw the sword". Following the expiry of Austria's Ultimatum on Saturday 25th July 1914, the Kaiser and the Tsar - friends and cousins, long desirous of peace between their two nations - found themselves in a new and highly precarious situation. Even so, there was still a wi…

472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4)

On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, read them the Ultimatum handed to Serbia by the Austro-Hungarian Empire the day before. The world held its breath, awaiting Serbia's response. With Germany determined to stand by Aus…

469. The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)

By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at war with Serbia, Russia with Germany, and an ultimatum had been handed to Belgium. The July crisis had resolved itself in the most calamitous way possible. But how did this state of affairs erupt from …

Secretary (2002): A Film About BDSM, Desire & Finding Yourself [TW: Self-Harm]

I argue that healthy is wherever you get to be fully yourself, even if it looks strange from the outside. I present a close reading of Secretary (2002) that shows the film is less a defense of BDSM than a defense of being witnessed accurately. I summarize Lee Holloway’s arc: released from a psychia…