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

Ideas

You can’t eat profits

A democratic vision for England’s tormented farmlands.

By Kai Heron, Alex Heffron and Rob Booth

The Weekend Essay

Going native

How Matthew Goodwin became part of the right-populist movement he once sought to explain.

By Oliver Eagleton

The New Tragic Age

Liberal internationalism has failed, but we can live in a multipolar world

A new era of great-power rivalry and resource competition need not end in ruin.

By Michael Lind

Ideas

The Red Christian

How Jacques Maritain, the most influential Catholic intellectual of the 20th century, changed the world.

By Madoc Cairns

Politics

Letter of the week: The NS great and the good

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

By New Statesman

Ideas

John Gray on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I regret I didn’t criticise Tony Blair more”

The philosopher on his time writing for the magazine as an essayist and critic, 1996-present.

By Gavin Jacobson

Ideas

Hail the assassins

The American youth has lost its radical temper – Daniel Goldhaber’s film How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an…

By Noah Kulwin

Books

Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls

Brilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.

By David Edmonds

Ideas

Why Trad Wives aren’t real Christians

The family has never been the centre of the church.

By Rose Lyddon

Ideas

Super-spreader

How Friedrich Hayek became the godfather of neoliberalism.

By Jan-Werner Müller

Ideas

Stop posting

Elon Musk has killed Twitter – so what should replace it?

By Justin EH Smith

Ideas

How to kill a country

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was no turning point. It was a slow-burning tale of how Britain and the US…

By Noah Kulwin

Comment

In its pursuit of Russian regime change, the West is doomed to repeat the errors of the Iraq War

A new generation of liberal hawks views Ukraine as the pivotal battlefield in a global struggle for democracy.

By John Gray

Ideas

The road to war in Iraq

Could a resolute cabinet and a more sceptical press have stopped Tony Blair?

By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Weekend Essay

Multi-Dimensional Man

Herbert Marcuse was the philosopher of the future in an age without one.

By Oliver Eagleton