John Foster / 05 Jun 2026
The Centre Cannot Hold
Ideology is Back
The paradox of contemporary French politics is that Emmanuel Macron conquered the centre without managing to reconstruct it.(...)
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John Foster / 29 May 2026
Neither Democracy Nor Dictatorship
Weimar Republic 2.0
What most closely links the post-2008 world to Weimar Germany is not extremism, but a deepening loss of confidence in liberal institutions.
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