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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The left must embrace law and order
In France and elsewhere, everyday insecurity hurts the poor much more than the rich.
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The triumph of cash
How universal basic income was adapted for the neoliberal era.
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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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Making democracy safe from capitalism
Market radicals have established economic spaces free of democratic constraint. What would a politics of the zone look like if…
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Liberal internationalism has failed, but we can live in a multipolar world
A new era of great-power rivalry and resource competition need not end in ruin.
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Why Tocqueville matters
Travel was a vital part of the French thinker’s political philosophy, but this has largely been forgotten in today’s secluded…
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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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Super-spreader
How Friedrich Hayek became the godfather of neoliberalism.
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The prophet of post-fascism
The late Marxist intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás captured Europe’s disorientation after the Cold War.
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What right-wing advocates for social mobility get wrong
Why should Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils need silent corridors while Winchester College gets a rifle club?
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George Santos shows that the right is as fixated with identity as the left
The mendacious Republican’s unquestioned claims about his Jewish heritage and sexuality demonstrate we should stick to the facts.
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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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What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong
The Belgian philosopher’s influence on today’s left is unquestionable, but the transformative potential of her ideas is held back by…
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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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