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Russell Blackford’s How We Became Post-Liberal purports to offer a detached, historical account of why liberalism is in trouble.
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, now 94, is a thinker of global significance. Duncan Ivison explains two of his most important ideas.
Opposition forces in France are using the president’s unpopularity to push for a new constitution. It’s a dangerous game.
When everything is seen as political – indictments, Supreme Court decisions, scientific findings – a democracy may be on its way to fascism.
A new book analyses the Labour politician’s prolific political writing.
What would moralists and realists say about the UK’s recent political turmoil?
The explicitly anti-democratic movement seems to have the ear of a major GOP donor – along with at least two GOP front-runners for the US Senate.
The prime minister accepts he broke the law but the question now becomes, did he mislead parliament about it?
The turn towards neofascism is a natural result of so-called western liberal democracy.
From tennis players to government officials, double standards in law have big-picture consequences.
Some people may be spiteful to pull others down, while others act this way to get ahead.
Is a second wave of coronavirus the price of freedom?
A political philosopher on why denying the right to resistance poses a far greater threat to a society than embracing it.
Thomas Hobbes described a dark place called the ‘state of nature’. But he also showed us how to avoid falling into it.
We need to look at what’s behind arguments for and against drug testing welfare recipients to avoid repeating the same debate, over and over.
The University of Reading wrongly judged that Geras’ essay, which discusses political violence, might fall foul of the government’s Prevent strategy.
Our current politically turbulent times in the US are difficult – but not unusual. History shows that fragility is the norm. Get used to it. What is unusual are moments of calm.
Our society is now intolerant of those who are intolerant of others; they can be legally penalised. But is that in itself a failure of tolerance?
The introduction of an African passport has the capacity to bring about increased migration of Africans within Africa.
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