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How do we think about war? How do we imagine it, picture it and explain it? Adam Rutherford hosts Radio 4's discussion programme which starts the week, asking what we can learn about ourselves from our varied intellectual and cultural responses to conflict.

Sir Lawrence Freedman is one of the world's leading scholars of warfare. In his new collection of essays, On Strategists and Strategy, he considers some of the key strategic thinkers of the last century and thoughts about the significance of political calculation, military tactics, organisational behaviour, character and psychology.

A new exhibition opens in March at the Imperial War Museum, London titled Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art. The curator Rebecca Newell explains what we learn from the ways in which artists recorded changes to the city during the Second World War in paintings, drawings and film.

The Hôtel Lutetia, the grand hotel on Paris's Left Bank, has over the years drawn bohemians and great artists, including Matisse and Picasso. However, for a short period around the Second World War, the hotel was witness to significant events. Jane Rogoyska's new book Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War peoples the hotel with the intellectual and refugees gathering there in the 1930s, the men of the German military intelligence service who made it their headquarters and the deportees returning from concentration camps.

Producer: Ruth Watts

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner.

Tyler Pager, Ana Swanson and Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times explain what comes next. 

Guest:

• Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times who covers the Trump administration.
• Ana Swanson, a reporter in Washington who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times.
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, a columnist and the founder and editor at large of DealBook.

Background reading: 

• Mr. Trump said he would raise his new global tariff to 15 percent after the Supreme Court struck down many of his previous tariffs.
• The president’s response underscored his insistence that he should have expansive powers to carry out his agenda as he wishes.
• Here are some key questions to consider on the future of the Trump administration’s tariffs.

Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press

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