Now Comes the Hard Part
The UK’s new Labour government enjoys a huge mandate, but it must contend with imposing challenges at home and abroad.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Politics
A collection of 528 posts
Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’
Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning.
Matt Johnson
· 25 min read
The Travesty of the Assange Plea Deal
The complacency of American liberalism has been demonstrated yet again in its inability, or unwillingness, to guard the national interest.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
The War Against Truth
It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Sin and Social Science
Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Stop Decriminalising Crime
When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it.
Paul H. Robinson, Jeffrey Seaman
· 11 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
Leon Hadar
· 15 min read
In Defence of Manifest 2024
The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism.
Theo Jaffee
· 8 min read
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
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