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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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…
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The Farage-Coutts scandal exposes the left’s hypocrisy
Liberals should be defending free speech, not an elite bank.
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Britain is the last liberal nation in Europe
Europe is being swallowed up by the right. Only Brexit Britain stands alone against the tide.
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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 rise of Mavis man and woman
Meet “Mavis”: the Middle-Aged, Volatile, Insurgent voters reshaping Britain’s politics. Who are they and what do they want for themselves…
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Europe’s false dawn
After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.
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Rescuing conservatism
A revival of civic institutions is needed to restore an alienated and divided country.
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The end of the liberal delusion
At the turn of the century, Western leaders claimed progress was inevitable. Yet events have contradicted this “faith”.
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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.
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The delusions that bind communism and liberalism
The self-deception that fuelled Bolshevism did not die with the end of the Cold War: it persists in Western liberals…
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