Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right
The author of Bronze Age Mindset has galvanised US conservatives – but his adolescent philosophy will soon be forgotten.
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The last days of Pax Americana
The Second Cold War is underway – can the US prevail?
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The lessons of Chile’s struggle against Big Tech
Salvador Allende’s greatest legacy is his attempt to democratise technology.
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The realists were right
As the much-hyped counteroffensive against Russian forces stalls, the West is asking hard questions about the war in Ukraine.
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Evelyn Waugh is laughing at you
His lethally coherent worldview still turns reality into a farce.
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John Le Carré and the spectre of British decline
The 1970s London of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was a place of decay. What defines it now?
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Cormac McCarthy’s art of war
In Blood Meridian the author reaches the dark heart of the American novel – where violence is timeless.
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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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The chaos and confusion of Donald Trump on trial
The criminal charges against Donald Trump could send him to prison — or help propel him back into the White…
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Christopher Nolan: the last Tory
The director is a mass entertainer with an elitist disdain for the masses. In his films, order and hierarchy reign…
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Barbie can’t handle the truth
Barbie and Oppenheimer show us how in the heart of the darkest realities we stumble upon fantasies.
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Everything is wrestling
American public life is an extension of the nation’s most sordid sport.
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Why do you love capitalism?
Johan Norberg’s The Capitalist Manifesto is a feeble defence of a system under attack.
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What Gen X feminism forgets
A recent batch of books explores the anger of mid-life feminists towards their millennial and Gen Z counterparts. But are…
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The restless storyteller
How Ian McEwan became the dominant novelist of his generation.
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The delusion of a new European empire
Old forms of thinking about world order are mutating in new conditions.
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Peter Turchin’s empty prophecies
The social scientist has made a career from predicting global instability. But in the new book End Times, his analysis…
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The meaning of Essex
Built for commuters, the county created a brash new consumerist identity. But its success has come at a price.
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The triumph of cash
How universal basic income was adapted for the neoliberal era.
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Dangerous minds
How Patrick Deneen and Yoram Hazony’s post-liberal theology went global.
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