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An ideology without a name Culture war? Political correctness? Cancel culture? Our intolerant era resists easy definition. Here are 12 theses to help make sense of it. Frank Furedi Spiked, 16th July 2020 In recent weeks, the Culture War has been widely discussed in the media. Yet there is a lack of clarity about what this conflict is about, who started it, and what are the issues at stake. Many ..

The Outrageous Optimism of Jean-Paul SartreBy Ian Birchall Jacobin 04.15.2020 The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died forty years ago today. Sartre’s philosophy and political values can still inspire struggles for freedom today. French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre during an interview, 1947. Charles Hewitt / Getty April 15 is the fortieth anniversary of the dea..

Two Revolutions for FreedomJoseph Loconte National Affairs, Winter 2020 Shortly after the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14, 1789, the English political theorist Edmund Burke wrote a letter to Lord Charlemont, the first president of the Royal Irish Academy. It is Burke's earliest known statement about the French Revolution: The spirit it is impossible not to ..

Capitalism Must Reform to Survive From Shareholders to StakeholdersBy Klaus Schwab Klaus Schwab is Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. MORE BY Klaus Schwab Foreign Affairs, January 16, 2020 The New York Stock Exchange, December 2018 Brendan McDermid / Reuters Companies today face an existential choice. Either they wholeheartedly embrace “stakeholder ca..

The Socialist Revival By John B. Judis American Affairs, Winter 2019 / Volume III, Number 4November 20, 2019 REVIEW ESSAY How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright Verso, 2019, 176 pages The Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara Basic Books, 2019, 256 pages As the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, so too, it seemed, did the dream of socialism. T..

Why the Early German Socialists Opposed the World’s First Modern Welfare StateByAdam J Sacks Jacobin, 12.05.2019 Otto von Bismarck built the world’s first welfare state, but his intent was to kill the rising workers’ movement. It’s a reminder that socialists don’t just want to use the welfare state to keep starvation at bay — we want to build the foundation for wor..

History MattersThe End of British Communism It was not the Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the ‘Party line’, which brought an end to the era of ‘fellow travellers’, 80 years ago. Oscar Clarke | History Today, Published 12 November 2019 A meeting of the British Communist Party, Earls Court, London, 5 August 1939 © Hulton Getty Images. It is ironic that the closest communism came..

Liberalism According to The EconomistFounded in 1843 to spread the doctrine of laissez-faire, the magazine has wielded influence like no other. But at what cost?By Pankaj Mishra The New Yoker, November 4, 2019 The magazine was founded in 1843, to disseminate the doctrine of laissez-faire. Illustration by Mark Long “Liberalism made the modern world, but the modern world is tu..

Liberalism and NationalismHeather Pangle National Affairs, Nov. 1, 2 019 Liberalism today is on the defensive. Both critics and advocates warn that liberal democracies are in crisis. A proliferation of essays, articles, and books offer myriad diagnoses as to what ails us. As James Traub has put it, "The death of liberalism constitutes the publishing world's biggest mass funeral..

<iframe src=“https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-TJTZ8FN” height=“0″ width=“0” style=“display:none;visibility:hidden”></iframe> LeninthinkOn the practice behind the theory of Marxism-Leninism by Gary Saul MorsonThe New Criterion, Features October 2019 Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Cri..