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
Politics
A collection of 523 posts
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
The Great Divide
As CCP corruption and waste has run rampant, the gulf between rich and poor has widened.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge
Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history.
Ronald Radosh
· 23 min read
Nostalgia for Confinement
Why are some in Russia and Eastern Europe pining for the communist system that once oppressed them?
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth
An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera.
Justo Antonio Triana
· 11 min read
Beware Cultural Drift
Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.
Robin Hanson
· 12 min read
The Prophet of October 7?
Frantz Fanon’s defenders try to distance him from the of ethos of violence he advocated, even as they embrace his anti-colonialist rhetoric to promote anti-Zionism.
Leon Hadar
· 12 min read
Ignore This Article
Among the countless articles and words devoted to the expression of opinion in the last 150 years, the vast majority are forgotten endorsements of a status quo, or futile critiques from the sidelines that were soon overtaken by events.
George Case
· 8 min read
Funhouse-Mirror Fusionism
Like the traditionalists and libertarians, integralists and vitalists find themselves advancing analogous causes: one stands for a moral order and cohesive community, and the other for the exceptional individual.
Cincinnatus Smith
· 14 min read
Return of the Fortune Tellers
Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums.
Aaron Sarin
· 8 min read
What Is the Labour Party For?
Sir Keir Starmer looks likely to become Britain’s next prime minister at a time when the democratic centre-left everywhere is facing a crisis of definition.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie
Building worldviews and political movements on falsehoods destroys common sense-making, impedes effective policy design, and erodes social trust and cohesion.
Brandon McMurtrie
· 5 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery?
The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.
Larissa Phillips
· 35 min read