Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.
Israel is a struggling, desperate, deeply flawed liberal democracy.
The campaign to remove Hamas from the UK’s list of proscribed organisations is not about defending free speech or political dissent. It is about legitimising jihadist warmongering.
Adolescence is a moving work of art but a misleading representation of the challenges facing British boys.
How Trump’s tariffs and foreign policy signal the third phase of US decline on the world stage.
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Iona Italia talks to John H. Cochrane aka "The Grumpy Economist" about the motivations, effects and implications of Donald Trump's economic policies.
Valid critiques of progressive moralism have devolved into an embrace of anything-goes strongman rule.
Its ability to churn out plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
Alexander Vindman’s bracing new book argues that Ukraine has been made to suffer the consequences of Western naivety and restraint.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
Why do so many people reflexively favour social solutions to climate change while discounting the promise of technological breakthroughs? The answer lies in our evolutionary past.
Vincenzo Latronico’s prismatic novel ‘Perfection’ is a lament for the hopes and dreams of a generation reconfigured by the internet.