Beating the retreat

The centre left has joined the populist right in despairing of good government

Statue of Spinoza near Amsterdam’s city hall ...

“[People] who never lived under socialism adore it, while everyone who lived under it hates it,”says Garry Kasparov, the Russian former chess grandmaster. New York’s enthusiasm for “democratic sociali

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