December 31, 2020

2020: the year the elites failed upwards After months of repeated errors and deceptions, experts and institutions are more powerful than ever

Jacob Siegel

04.11

The President’s speech was scarily good When he used the F-word, Trump knew exactly what he was doing

Sam Leith

03.11

What’s the mood in Trumpland? West Virginians still have faith in the President — but they have doubts about the soul of America

Ian Birrell

03.11

How propaganda will win the presidency Biden and Trump buttress two very different myths about America's deepest nature

Peter Pomerantsev

28.10

Will the Moon become the next Iraq? As Earth's great powers compete for lunar supremacy, astropolitics is about to get ugly

Tim Marshall

20.10

America’s establishment still sneers at the Right Four years on, political hacks remain uninterested in why Trump connects with so many voters

Gavin Haynes

14.08

Racial categories are reactionary One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by ‘race’

Ralph Leonard

21.07

The myth of ‘Anglo-America’ Simplistic civilisational narratives are all the rage right now — but take them with a pinch of salt

Peter Franklin

17.06

The woke have no vision of the future Like medieval millenarians, today's SJWs believe all that needs to be done to bring about a new world is to destroy the old one

John Gray

08.06

The inequality that fuels our dangerous times Racism is the driving factor behind current protests — but there are other issues at play

Peter Franklin

23.04

Why the English sacrificed liberty for lockdown Amid Covid-19, this country has happily abandoned the freedom from which America was born

James Kirkup

06.03

Farewell free trade, and good riddance Even before coronavirus, economic nationalism was on the up

David Goodhart