Can liberali sm move the soul?

The threat to democracy from cultural polarization

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

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

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

What makes a novel of ideas?

The private sphere is under threat