Section: Essay

Total Results: 1016


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February 2, 2021

What America can learn from Russia Spiralling addiction, inequality and an oligarch class can pave the way for authoritarianism

Daniel Kalder

Monday
01.02

01.02

We’d be lost without borders The illusion of a borderless world has been exposed by the coronavirus epidemic

Paul Scheffer

Friday
29.01

29.01

The phoney War on Woke The Government's obsession with statues and street names is a dangerous distraction

Ed West

Thursday
28.01

28.01

For Clinton feminists, not all women are equal Female liberation has been captured by a wealthy elite

Mary Harrington

Wednesday
27.01

27.01

Cancel culture rarely survives a plague Ideological mania can become too costly to maintain

Sean Thomas

Monday
25.01

25.01

Martin Luther would have ruled Twitter The culture war debates playing out on social media have a precedent in the Reformation

Tom Holland

Friday
22.01

22.01

The capturing of the Capitol Why did no one question the military occupation of Washington?

Michael Tracey

Thursday
21.01

21.01

Scepticism is not always the answer Question life all you want – but it has no meaning without our shared humanity

Giles Fraser

Wednesday
20.01

20.01

America and Iran need each other Ever since the Hostage Crisis ended, the two countries have been waltzing out of step

David Patrikarakos

Tuesday
19.01

19.01

The American Dream that failed With Western democracy in chaos, John Rawls's utopia remains vanishingly elusive

Dominic Sandbrook

Monday
18.01

18.01

How Germany came in from the cold A century and a half after unification, the Prussian aberration has lessons for today

James Hawes

Friday
15.01

15.01

Impeachment is more dangerous than Trump The aftermath of the Capitol 'coup' echoes the post-9/11 era

Michael Tracey