Ideas

The New Tragic Age

The New Age of Tragedy

Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.

By Robert D Kaplan, John Gray and Helen Thompson

Ideas

Our new financial masters

How asset managers work in the shadows – and shape all of our lives.

By Brett Christophers

The Weekend Essay

Dangerous minds

How Patrick Deneen and Yoram Hazony’s post-liberal theology went global.

By Suzanne Schneider and Yotam Hotam

The Weekend Essay

Do we really need Rawls?

Daniel Chandler’s much-hyped new book says that, in an age of polarisation, the American philosopher offers a blueprint for society.

By William Davies

Ideas

Why Tocqueville matters

Travel was a vital part of the French thinker’s political philosophy, but this has largely been forgotten in today’s secluded…

By Nick Burns

Culture

Who is criticism for?

Seth Rogen’s protest against bad reviews misunderstands the role of the critic in the fight against mediocrity.

By Lola Seaton

Books

The problem with Peter Frankopan’s theory of history

The Earth Transformed seeks to tell the story of climate change without confronting global capitalism. The result is a book…

By Geoff Mann

The Weekend Essay

Who is afraid of Martin Heidegger?

Why the most radioactive philosopher of the 20th century still speaks to us.

By Lyndsey Stonebridge

Ideas

The revolution will not be brought to you by ChatGPT

Robots never took your job, and neither will chatbots.

By Aaron Benanav

The Weekend Essay

The Washington consensus is dead

Europe, China and the US have all rejected free trade and globalisation. Protectionism is back.

By Angela Nagle

Culture

EP Thompson’s dystopian visions

His science fiction novel tackled two fears: atomic annihilation and AI determinism.

By Samuel Rubinstein

Ideas

The world ended in 1973

In the West, five decades of economic stagnation have scrambled politics.

By Alex Hochuli

Ideas

Oliver Anthony does not have the answers

Right-wing protest songs only benefit the wealthy and powerful.

By Slavoj Žižek

The Weekend Interview

Freddie deBoer: elite identity politics is destroying the left

The Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.

By Freddie Hayward

Long reads

Anarchy unbound: the new scramble for Africa

Caught between climate change, migration and social upheaval, Niger and the Sahel are the crucible of Western failure.

By Robert D Kaplan

Ideas

Letter of the week: The secondary sex

Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.

By New Statesman

Politics

Where is the left’s New Deal?

Instead of accepting the right-wing economic orthodoxy, we should implement the radical reforms that rebuilt postwar UK and US.

By Adrian Pabst

Ideas

Celebrating failure is a mistake

There is no such thing as a “teachable moment”.

By Josh Mcloughlin

Ideas

Ukraine must go to war with itself

Now is the time to confront oligarchs and cultural conservatives, and ask what sort of country Ukraine will become.

By Slavoj Žižek

Ideas

The human era is ending

Artificial intelligence poses a profound challenge to our humanness.

By John Gray

Ideas

George Kennan, loser

The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.

By Ivan Krastev and Leonard Benardo

The Weekend Essay

America is nothing more than a self-help society

On both the left and the right, political radicalism has given way to cultish self-improvement.

By Sohrab Ahmari

Ideas

Longtermism poses a real threat to humanity

William MacAskill’s utopian visions may end in violent upheaval.

By Émile P Torres

Ideas

Milan Kundera’s sexual revolutions

The misunderstood author cared more about skirt-chasing than power politics.

By Christopher Caldwell

Ideas

How do you purge an elite?

Patrick Deneen’s hostility to liberalism has made him a leading intellectual of the “New Right”. But his aristocratic populism is…

By George Scialabba