Making the best of what we have

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

I AM A HISTORY PROFESSOR AT ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flag-waving patriot with an abiding love of the U.S. Those two statements might seem surprisin

What makes a novel of ideas?

This impressive book – based on an astonishingly wide-ranging reading, and written with adamantine clarity – deals far more with the critics than with capitalism. These critics fall roughly into three

The threat to democracy from cultural polarization

Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham