Noam Chomsky’s reputation will never recover from the Epstein files
If you ever saw Chomsky as a moral paragon, you weren’t paying attention
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Do ideas change the world?
Even in the hellscape of modern America, moral imagination remains the most important engine of progress
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Hunter S Thompson’s freaks have overrun America
The pioneer of gonzo chronicled his people’s wild descent – and saw what his country has now become
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Gore Vidal: American prophet
The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall
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Britain’s decline is as much intellectual as political
Where are our storytellers to shake us or point a way ahead?
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Arno J Mayer’s 20th century
The historian helped transform the writing of history – and with it our understanding of the modern world.
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The Marx whisperer
The geographer David Harvey’s videos on Capital have made him an internet intellectual. But he has been observing the carnage…
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Susan Sontag’s women problem
In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…
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We are still living with the wreckage of liberal globalisation
Free-market utopianism had a devastating impact on those without the resources to live an individualised life.
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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.
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Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls
Brilliant and eccentric, the Oxford philosopher spent his career grappling with fundamental moral questions.
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ChatGPT and the death of the author
AI-powered chatbots are not only exploiting human creativity but rapidly eroding it.
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The detective of world history
The New Left thinker Tom Nairn, who has died aged 90, understood the appeal of British identity even as he…
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The ghosts of Mark Fisher
How the cultural critic, four years after his death, became one of the most influential thinkers and writers of our…
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History according to EH Carr
The historian was prescient in warning that the value of facts depends on who wields them.
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Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals
To think of this book as any kind of scholarly exercise is a category mistake. The purpose of Pinker’s laborious…
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Why Antonio Gramsci is the Marxist thinker for our times
The late Italian philosopher’s concept of hegemony was startlingly prescient.
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