Why we need Arundhati Roy
It is vanishingly rare for a writer to both confront the ugliness of humanity and still search for its beauty.…
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Fredric Jameson’s capitalist horror show
We still live in the postmodern landscape defined by the Marxist thinker, who died this month.
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The neoliberal battle for Ukraine’s reconstruction
The country’s postwar future is almost as riven as the war itself.
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The petit bourgeois insurrection
Family-owned firms now sit at the heart of America’s fraying democracy.
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The case for optimism
Britain can escape the age of economic anxiety if Labour is willing to ditch rules and embrace risk.
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Joseph Stiglitz: the UK’s tax system is “inexcusable”
The American economist on how neoliberalism put us on “the road to 21st-century fascism”.
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How America bought up Britain
From assets to businesses, the high street to the internet, US investors have a stranglehold on Britain’s economy.
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After neoliberalism
Across the West, faith in liberal democracy is waning. We need a clear response to the new politics of grievance.
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How Thomas Piketty found politics
Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?
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The narcotopian dilemma
Why liberal societies are helpless in the face of the global illegal drugs trade.
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Conscious uncoupling
Can growth be detached from fossil fuels and made green?
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There’s nothing moderate about “centrism”
David Cameron and Rishi Sunak stand for a rampant market individualism that disregards the common good.
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Monster of the mainstream
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei embodies the zombie neoliberalism of the 1990s.
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Yanis Varoufakis: The Democrats are helping to elect Trump
The former Greek finance minister on his new book Technofeudalism and why the left keeps losing.
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Capitalism is driving the culture wars
In a world of insecurity, the masses are trying to assert dignity and choice through battles over identity politics.
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Masayoshi Son’s inventor complex
With the public listing of the British chips company Arm, the SoftBank CEO is still set on transforming the world…
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The original woke capitalists
Innocent is a purveyor of friendliness, social concern and smoothies. Are its ethics for real?
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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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Would there still have been global warming under socialism?
Market failure certainly delays aggressive climate action, but even had the whole world in the 20th century been socialist, the…
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How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us all.
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