The late Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013) was an intellectual light to the American liberal left, whose ability to communicate complex ideas to the public led the great Harvard political philosopher John Rawls to liken him to a modern day John Stuart Mill. It’s certainly true that’s Dworkin’s theories of law have, to a large extent, entered…
The end of politics is the attention-grabbing title of Douglas Carswell’s book. But the book ends without offering a genuine consideration of what politics is really for – just that it is broken. The book argues that government has got much bigger over the last few decades, providing and spending more to the detriment of…
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, a wave of social democratic parties across Europe suffered heavy election defeats. What is more, social democrats have very few means by which to defend the political economy they oversaw during their time in office. This was particularly pronounced in the UK. A result of this is that…
At the heart of the current presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is the question of power: who will wield it and to what purpose? Politicos – both elected and otherwise – rightly obsess over this both in terms of the horserace and the legislative legacy. That’s the reason why one of President…
Roger Scruton is someone you want to like. Anyone who writes on the philosophy of wine, on the nature of beauty, and on why conservatives should care more about the environment (as he does in this book) seems an affable sort. His cover photo shows the kind of tweedy, dishevelled, yet rakish figure you’d hope…
Over the last 60 years, European social democracy has moved (though with varying degrees across nations) from ascendancy in the post-war era to marginalisation from the early 1980s and then to ‘The Third Way’ period of accommodation to markets from the mid-1990s. The essays in After the Third Way: The future of social democracy in Europe…
In modern societies ‘debt’ refers to an economic relationship of incomplete exchange, based on the expectation that it will, at some point, be closed through repayment.
Richard Sennett’s new book is a study of the practice of co-operation. It is the second of three in what he calls his ‘homo faber’ project – the idea of human beings as the makers of their own destiny through work. The first book was The Craftsman in 2008. The third will be on making…
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