Month: July 2020

Total Results: 88

We are all prisoners of groupthink Patrick McGoohan's 1960s cult curiosity turns out to be a parable for our intolerant times

America’s cultural revolution is just like Mao’s To many who survived the crackdown in China, events in the US are frighteningly familiar

Why Covid won’t kill off populism Those hardest hit by the Great Lockdown are the ones who were already rejecting mainstream politics

Matthew Goodwin

Saturday

04.07

Macron’s pointless green gestures The President hasn't realised France is more worried about the economy than the environment

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Friday

03.07

China’s modern genocide There's nothing new about the eugenics being practised in the Uighur "re-education" camps

Is Trump about to quit? Those keenest for the President to drop out of the race are some of his more serious supporters

How a 1990s book predicted 2020 Christopher Lasch's 'The Revolt of the Elites' detailed how capitalism would radicalise the rich

What does my gladiator dream mean? This ancient analysis of nocturnal visions is superforecasting, second-century style

Thursday

02.07

Blame the parents for this angry activism Today's young adults have been raised without boundaries or authority — no wonder they're lashing out

Mary Harrington

Britain needs to build a better brand Divorced from the EU, the UK is going to have to put some effort into selling itself

The Church shouldn’t hide its sordid past If you pretend everything is perfect, there will be no grounds for redemption

How Trump could refuse to go Will the President bow out with good grace — or will he play dirty and find a way to stay?