Empire state

What makes a novel of ideas?

Jimmy Carter’s abrasive foreign policy adviser and rival to Henry Kissinger

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

Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

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

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