David Engels

David Engels was Professor and Chair of Roman History at the University of Brussels (ULB) and currently works as free writer and lecturer for world history at the ICES University in France. He is the author and editor of numerous scholarly books and papers on ancient history, the philosophy of history and modern conservatism. He is chiefly known through his study Le déclin, where he compared the current crisis of the West to the decline and fall of the Roman Republic in the 1st c. B.C., and through his books Renovatio Europae, Que faire? and Défendre l’Europe, all available in numerous translations. Engels has also published a thousand articles on culture and politics in the broader European media, comprising a cooking column with his prefered recipes.