Our enduring discontents

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

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

Two competing visions of Black liberation in 1960s Detroit

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

“[People] who never lived under socialism adore it, while everyone who lived under it hates it,”says Garry Kasparov, the Russian former chess grandmaster. New York’s enthusiasm for “democratic sociali

The threat to democracy from cultural polarization