End times for the dei cult

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi

The Board of Peace Controversy of the week ...

acton.org The “greatest prophets” of free-market capitalism “saw the trade-off from the beginning”, says Thomas Dias. Adam Smith’s famous pin factory showed the division of labour enables the producti

“Perhaps he’ll do an Elvis and have a fatal heart attack on the loo,” a friend muttered this week. Like most investors, she is having trouble getting used to the idea that the US president has become

It is nearly ten long years since the British people voted to leave the European Union. The latest opinion polls show that a majority now believe that Brexit has gone badly. Too much time has been was

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