Michel Houellebecq’s material hell
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Ideas
The Ideas Essay
Interviews and profiles
Long Reads, Symposiums and Specials
What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
The 2010s: a decade of revolutionaries without a revolution
How the left was made and unmade.
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
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How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us…
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The New Age of Tragedy
Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.
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Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right
The author of Bronze Age Mindset has galvanised US conservatives – but his adolescent philosophy will soon be forgotten.
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Enter the Age of Malthus
The climate crisis, geopolitical disorder, and the rise of the “praetorian regime”.
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The case for an Atlantic Union
In a world of great-power rivalry, Europe and America need each other.
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When finance and oil collide
Central banks are being pulled in opposing directions by energy inflation and market instability.
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JGA Pocock’s days of rage
How the violent upheavals of Seventies America helped forge the greatest historian of our time.
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