John Foster / 03 Jul 2026
Afraid of Their Own Voters
Why Liberal Parties Move Right
Why do liberal parties seem more alarmed by victories on their left flank than defeats by the right?(...)
Centre Left
John Foster / 05 Dec 2025
The Cure for Populism is Social Democracy
Reinvigorating the Centre-Left
In the wake of the Cold War, governments throughout the West began scrapping the equipment that once mediated class conflict, only to discover that the conflict did not leave with the equipment.(...)
John Foster / 16 May 2025
End of the Middle
Tariq Ali’s The Extreme Centre: A Warning
Tariq Ali’s 2015 book The Extreme Centre: A Warning makes a strong case for a new systemic order.(...)
John Foster / 29 Nov 2024
The Post-Social Democratic Left
Sinn Féin and the Irish Election
Coalition politics are hotting up in Europe these days.(...)
John Foster / 02 Aug 2024
The End of an Era
Remembering Lewis Lapham
The death of Lewis Lapham feels like the passing of an era, not simply in the rarified world of America’s literary elite.(...)