The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
Politics
A collection of 565 posts
Something Is Wrong
It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics.
Michael Walzer
· 11 min read
Vapid Antiwar-ism
Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Political Polarisation in Australia
We are at a crossroads—either we prepare for a world of identity politics and populism, or we restore settlement politics in Australia.
Damien Freeman
· 19 min read
Fear and the Overton Window
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 8 min read
Britain’s Golden Slumber
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 11 min read
The Limits of ‘The Israel Lobby’
Mearsheimer and Walt still don’t understand American support for Israel.
Matt Johnson
· 25 min read
Waltzing Down the Road to Hell
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
Adam Garfinkle
· 15 min read
What Does It Mean for Something to Be Socially Constructed?
There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
The Bell 212 Tolls for Tehran
We should celebrate the death of the Butcher of Tehran, but Iran’s future remains fraught with uncertainty.
Paul Monk
· 11 min read
The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat
Are concerns about cultured meat justified?
Matthew Adelstein
· 9 min read
Very Bad Government
From the beginning, the SNP leadership has skilfully papered over its failures and absurdities with soaring rhetoric of the better life to come once Scotland is “free.”
John Lloyd
· 11 min read
Springtime for Sinwar
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.
Jeffrey Herf
· 21 min read
Bad History at the BBC
A new radio series about the 1943 Bengal famine favours culture-war polemic over rigorous scholarship.
Hira Jungkow
· 6 min read