By Martin Eiermann.“If you are confused”, Amado assures me, “you are on the right track. Everyone in Egypt is confused.”
A Letter from Cairo.
By Martin Eiermann.
“If you are confused”, Amado assures me, “you are on the right track. Everyone in Egypt is confused.”
A Letter from Cairo.
By Owen Jones.
“Demonizing people at the bottom has been a convenient way of justifying an unequal society throughout the ages.”
An Anatomy of Britain’s supposed underclass.
By Mark Chiusano.
“Like everyone else, someone had come up to me, put a pointer finger in the center of my chests, and said, serve your country. Make us the Gadget, they said, and your name will be forever.”
A short story.
By David Hayes.
“In case of rams and horses, Kurnus, / We seek the highest class, / And select the finest specimens / Of ass to breed with ass.”
A new translation of Theognis 183-92.
“Just because something is unreachable should not deter us from striving for it. So here’s the vision…”
The Utopian inaugurates a series of utopias, written by today’s most interesting philosophers, social scientists, politicians and writers. First up: Alastair Campbell.
By Ross Perlin.
How to earn nothing and learn little in the brave new economy.
The Intern Manifesto.
Daniel Bell reflects on Friends, Foes, Influences, Ideologies, the State of the Novel, the State of the Union, and the Old Neighborhood.
By Roberto Foa and Thomas Meaney.
By Joseph Nye.
Predictions of European decline rely on an outmoded understanding of power. On all issues that require power with - rather than over - others, Europe has impressive capacity.
A defense of Europe’s relevance.
By Justin Reynolds.
“Once upon a time, revolutions devoured their children. Of late, they seem to have gone on birth control.”
Can the mass protests in Tunisia and Egypt succeed even though they have failed to produce real political leaders?
By Alexander Lee.
As revolutions unfold in the Middle East, we must not look on these brave actions as foreign measures, alien to democratic nations. They are not the distant, muffled sounds of nations from which we are separated by an unbridgeable divide, but a call to arms for all those who suffer.
By Pierre Troullier.
“No Pardon / Can wash blood / When it’s spilt / And since flood / No garden / Can hide guilt.”
Two poems.
By George Scialabba.
“It is far from obvious that Smith would have entertained cordial feelings toward Alan Greenspan or Margaret Thatcher … Smith was, in short, a mensch.”
A review of an intellectual biography by Nicholas Phillipson.
By Timothy Stanley.
On Politics, History, Sex and Morality.
A Response to Damon Linker.
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