What Jürgen Habermas leaves behind
His legacy is the philosophical strength to see through our dark, illiberal age
ByPolitical philosophy
Don’t let Britain decline
The Fourth Great Disruption is here
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International law is not dead
The Iran war cannot lead the left to submit to an anarchic world order
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Political Islam won’t die with the ayatollah
Those willing Iran’s collapse miss the contemporary genius of its founding ideology
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The breaking of nation-states
Utopian visions of an internationalist future ring hollow in dystopian times
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How politics went hyper
The passions that once drove the left have faded, while the populist right marches on
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What Gillian Rose saw in Auschwitz
Thirty years after her death, Rose’s command to look for fascism inside our selves is more powerful than ever
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Why I am not a post-liberal
Hobbesian liberalism is the only way to rescue British society
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Charlie Kirk and America’s Age of Lead
As violence mounts across the country, no one is safe – or innocent.
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Lea Ypi: “Labour is committing political suicide”
The Albanian philosopher on No 10’s shift to the right on immigration, her grandmother, and that Spectator article.
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The rage of Dominic Cummings
Britain’s rogue intellectual has predicted a civil war. Is he also cheerleading one?
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Imperial calculations
In its attacks on Iran, Israel is exploiting the chaos of American foreign policy.
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Conservatism is dead
From Kemi Badenoch to Elon Musk, the right today seems to value destruction above all else.
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The godfather of the Maga right
Steve Bannon on a US-Russia alliance, kinship with Blue Labour, and his war on modernity.
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Theodore Roosevelt, the Tories’ new philosopher-king
As Kemi Badenoch’s authority crumbles, British conservatism is searching for a new figurehead.
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Labour has lost the language of solidarity
Political rhetoric is transactional and utilitarian – this needs to change.
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The race to God Mode
China and America’s AI battle is about more than just tech supremacy – it’s about controlling the future.
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Could John Rawls save the Labour Party?
Rachel Reeves is not just facing an economic crisis – she is suffering from a failure of philosophical imagination.
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The remoralisation of politics is long overdue
For common decency to prevail, we must understand the economic, social and psychological pressures that influence the way we behave.
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The lure of political killing
From the Roman empire to Bolshevik Russia, the past shows how assassination fails to halt a society’s drift towards authoritarianism.
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