The lawfare state
Though the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court on 19 December barring the former president Donald Trump from appearing on Colorado’s Republican presidential primary ballot was a shock, it shouldn’t...
View ArticleThe culture war claims Claudine Gay
Editors note: Claudine Gay resigned from her position as Harvard President on January 2nd, after fierce criticism of the University’s response to the Hamas attack on Israel and backlash from her...
View ArticleFrom Bowling Alone to scrolling alone
In the final chapter of her masterwork, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Hannah Arendt arrived at the sine qua non for totalitarianism: loneliness. “What prepares men for totalitarian domination...
View ArticleYesterday’s man
Last night, on 15 January, Iowans braved sub-zero temperatures and wind chills of around -35°C to vote in America’s Iowa Republican caucuses, the country’s first presidential contest. The weather was...
View ArticleThe hologram president
It is perhaps the strangest spectacle in history. The most powerful country on the planet, whose economy and – zooming out now and looking at it in the longest historical perspective – whose porous...
View ArticleLiberalism’s last laugh
“Laughter,” someone once said, “is proof of the existence of God. Life is too funny to be uncaused.” Could that possibly be true? The SS mounted over the gates of Auschwitz the motto “Arbeit macht...
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