Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 20 Apr 2022
First Impressions Last Forever
Dining With Marine Le Pen
Emmanuel Macron’s stump speech in Strasbourg last week was a blast from the past.(...)
Marine Le Pen
John Foster / 11 Mar 2022
Looking for a New Left
The End of the End of History, by Hochuli, Hoare and Cunliffe
It’s fun to laugh at Francis Fukuyama. It’s even more fun to laugh at the legions of people who misinterpreted his 1992 blockbuster, The End of History and the Last Man.(...)
John Foster / 12 Nov 2021
Inequality is Still Wrong
Time for Socialism, by Thomas Piketty
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Penned towards the end of the Vietnam War by Hunter S. Thompson, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the statement sounds truer than ever.(...)
John Foster / 25 Jun 2021
Just Call it Capitalism
Europe’s Neoliberal Crisis
The development of the European Union in the last decade has been shaped by a malign synergy of neoliberalism and populism.(...)
Ari Paul / 28 Apr 2021
White Supremacist Rhetoric
The Tucker Carlson Problem
One of the most mainstream and establishment American Jewish organisations is calling for Fox News host Tucker Carlson to resign.(...)
John Foster / 02 Apr 2021
The End of the Left
The Last Neoliberal, by Bruno Amable and Stefano Palombrini
There is a case to be made that the left is dead. (...)
Duncan Simpson / 24 Feb 2021
The COVID Excuse
Vaccine Passports and Human Rights
As vaccination programmes in Europe and America accelerate, there is increasing clamour for their benefits to be fast-tracked through the use of vaccination or immunity passports.(...)
Joel Schalit / 13 Jul 2020
Brexit Anti-Colonialism
Imperial Victimhood Scam
On 23 June 2016, the country that had ruled over the largest empire in history voted to "take back control".(...)
John Foster / 13 Sep 2019
Coming Up for Air
The Populist Interregnum
Describing his time in Nazi prison camps in the 1930s, Paul Massing noted that the experience was much more difficult for those outside his political party.(...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Sep 2019
Dangerous Outsiders
The European Commission’s New Migrant Brand
Nationalism is here to stay. The far-right may never take over the European Commission. But its politics are now mainstream and have changed the way the executive frames multiculturalism.(...)