Conservatism is dead
From Kemi Badenoch to Elon Musk, the right today seems to value destruction above all else.
ByPolitical philosophy
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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Your entire existence is a fluke
The political scientist Brian Klaas believes that the world is defined by randomness.
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Searching for Frantz Fanon
Was the elusive revolutionary thinker naive, or ahead of his time?
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John Gray and Peter Thiel: Life in a postmodern world
A conversation between the philosopher and the venture capitalist.
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Progressives dream of tyranny
Millions of young people identify with movements that repress the freedoms they take for granted.
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On the slaughter-bench of history
Hegel’s analysis of humanity as stumbling from one horror to the next remains all too relevant.
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The left needs to be more like Michel Foucault
Only by reclaiming his vitalist philosophy can the left-wing thought triumph.
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The future will be made in America
By sharing leadership with India, the US could fend off the challenge of China.
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Britain’s eternal decline
Debate on Britain’s place in the world has flared through war, imperial upheaval and Thatcherism. Brexit reignited it.
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The dismal rise of the lobbyist left
In the US, UK, France and Spain, socialists have embraced horse-trading at the expense of building popular power.
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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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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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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