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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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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