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.
(...)
Colin Crouch
John Foster / 21 Feb 2026
Political Power is Dead
Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicisation Without Democracy, by Anton Jäger
We inhabit an age of maximal political intensity and minimal political consequence.(...)
John Foster / 24 Oct 2025
The Ghost of Politics
Refusing the Hypnosis of the Present
A spectre is haunting Europe, the ghost of politics itself.(...)
John Foster / 15 Aug 2025
Post-Democracy for Beginners
Reclaiming Power From Below
Long before far-right populism started making the headlines, it was already giving way to something else.(...)