How to get on with your political opponents
Ultimately, what matters is not whether someone is principled, but whether they have been promoting genuinely good things.
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We shouldn’t demonise Winston Churchill – or deify him
The point of history is to see people and situations in the round rather than to succumb to satisfying myths.
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The left’s patient gardener
Mike Davis, the Marxist historian and urban theorist, died in October aged 76. As a theoretical innovator, his singular approach…
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Is America worth keeping?
Richard Rorty, the philosopher who predicted Trump, was scathing about the US’s failings but believed in the country’s capacity to…
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Plato was wrong about “philosopher kings” – just look at Kwasi Kwarteng
The swift consequences of the Chancellor’s textbook ideology prove that leaders can’t rule from the head alone.
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How politics became the chosen hobby of retirees
The politicisation of the young has been widely discussed, but it is the politicisation of the old that has been…
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The forgotten politics of personal sacrifice
For the first time in decades, Western politicians are asking people to forfeit for the greater good – and are…
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Out with the old: is neoliberalism really dying?
Despite our age of economic crisis, populism and pandemic, we may be living in the ruins of the neoliberal order…
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