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

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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

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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

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The sovereign individual in Downing Street

In 1997 a business book predicted tech disruption, the alt-right and the rise of the super-rich. Now, in Rishi Sunak,…

By Quinn Slobodian

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The first reactionary

Edmund Burke may be the Conservatives’ philosopher king – but his thinking was more fickle than Tories seem to realise.

By Samuel Earle

Ideas

Can we live forever?

New technologies promise the elixir of immortality – and the upheaval of society as we know it.

By Martin Rees

Ideas

Calling time on the neoliberalism debate

The rise of industrial policy does not signal the end of the old regime.

By Brett Christophers

The Weekend Report

Freud save America

Psychoanalysis is back in vogue with the American left. But is that rejuvenation symbolic of the latter’s failure?

By Nick Burns

The Weekend Essay

The triumph of cash

How universal basic income was adapted for the neoliberal era.

By Oliver Eagleton

US

Run. Hide. Fight

An FBI video about how to survive a mass shooting has gone viral – it’s a monument to the trauma…

By Richard Seymour

Ideas

Rescuing conservatism

A revival of civic institutions is needed to restore an alienated and divided country.

By Andrew O’Brien

Ideas

There is no such thing as the self

Our personalities are more like episodes than sagas.

By Lamorna Ash

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Death rattle conservatism

The NatCons are poised to capture a party in terminal decline.

By Andrew Gamble

Ideas

Making democracy safe from capitalism

Market radicals have established economic spaces free of democratic constraint. What would a politics of the zone look like if…

By Mathew Lawrence

The New Tragic Age

Britain must be pragmatic, but we can still pursue our vision of a better world

We should not abandon idealism nor our faltering international institutions, but new alliances are also needed.

By David Lammy

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

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You can’t eat profits

A democratic vision for England’s tormented farmlands.

By Kai Heron, Alex Heffron and Rob Booth