The tragedy of progress in the developing world
Kenya and Bangladesh are doomed to walk the crooked road of history.
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How America resembles the dying Soviet Union
Like the former communist bloc, Western liberalism is slowly disintegrating.
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The Liberal Democrats’ shallow soul
Only a party with no imagination would resort to such frivolous stunts.
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Whatever happened to the language of peace?
Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
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Demonising white women is not feminist
Casual misogyny is flooding the mainstream under the guise of anti-racism.
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The biggest threat to freedom in the West is liberalism itself
Progressives everywhere are deploying the law to attack free speech. It is a bid for unchecked power that is galvanising…
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The narcotopian dilemma
Why liberal societies are helpless in the face of the global illegal drugs trade.
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Liberalism’s last laugh
The fate of democracy could well depend on what makes us smile.
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The Trumpian end of the liberal world order
With the former president’s return the West may finally be released from its mission impossible.
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From Bowling Alone to scrolling alone
Why loneliness is the defining political crisis in America.
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Labour is failing to build a new political consensus
The party’s self-imposed fiscal straitjacket risks alienating a popular majority.
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The new authoritarian personality
What is driving the resurgence of the libertarian far right?
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There’s nothing moderate about “centrism”
David Cameron and Rishi Sunak stand for a rampant market individualism that disregards the common good.
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Saudi Arabia’s crown prince understands the modern world. His Western suitors do not
Mohammed bin Salman resembles no one so much as the prince from Machiavelli’s manual of statecraft.
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Hobbes was wrong
John Gray’s latest book argues that the new Leviathans of liberalism have led to a war of all against all.
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The left has an England problem
A nation steeped in culture cannot be reduced to statistics and pop psychology.
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The world ended in 1973
In the West, five decades of economic stagnation have scrambled politics.
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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.
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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.
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Keir Starmer will bury Blairism
In office, circumstances will force the Labour leader to break with his party’s liberal progressivism.
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