Uncommon wealth

Three accounts of modern liberalism

Donald Trump describes the enemy as “global financial powers”. For Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, they’re “international speculators” with hidden faces. For Matthew Goodwin, national populism’s chief British

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

What are wealth taxes? Taxes that make you pay a levy based on your assets – typically your net wealth – rather than your income from work. Such taxes used to be far more common globally than they are

Understanding the rise of the far right

Pick of the week’s correspondence