Power plays

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

The threat to democracy from cultural polarization

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

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

How consumer choice became far removed from economics

The private sphere is under threat