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Review of The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?:The Political Writing by Tony Benn (Verso, 2025) We are fortunate that the three pillars of Tony Benn’s socialism — the radical democratization of politics, the Alternative Economic Strategy,...

You might think that pop music has lost the ability to generate real political controversies in its Anglo-American heartlands. The idea of a mainstream monoculture into which underground rock or rap artists can cross over...

Alasdair MacIntyre, the preeminent moral philosopher known for his critiques of liberal modernity, died yesterday at the age of ninety-six. Born in Glasgow in 1929 and teaching for the last several decades of his life...

“Big feelings are okay,” sings Ms Rachel in one of her characteristic children’s songs. “It’s okay to have big feelings. I’m here to stay with your big feelings. I’m not afraid of your big feelings.”...

Review of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (HarperCollins, 2025) and Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again by Jake...

“There’s a big difference between the old Republican Party that focused on Wall Street,” said Republican senator Jim Banks of Indiana in a video clip titled “The new GOP is the party of the working...

Friedrich Merz is Germany’s new chancellor — head of government in Europe’s largest economy, but likely also setting the direction for the EU as a whole. Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Merz’s campaign...

Even before police apprehended Luigi Mangione, Tik Tok users bestowed a nickname on the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson: the adjustor. The label refers to insurance adjustors who evaluate claims to determine liability...

It’s clichéd but true that personnel is policy. The kinds of people a president chooses to helm the machinery of government are usually far more important to deciding the direction of an administration than that...

Criticisms of the Hindu far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has ruled India since 2014, usually focus on its fascist and crony capitalist character. Although well-founded, these criticisms do not quite capture the novelty of...

At least six organizations that claim to champion patient rights have deep financial and operational ties to Big Pharma and work to advance corporate profits. These industry front groups routinely lobby in line with the...

In a recent CNN town hall, an audience member named Grace Thomas asked Bernie Sanders how the Democrats could win back men, particularly white men, without abandoning marginalized communities. A fiery Sanders, who moments later...