The prophet of the new right
By John Merrick
Ideas
The Ideas Essay
Interviews and profiles
Long Reads, Symposiums and Specials
The prophet of the new right
In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.
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The Thatcher delusion
The Labour Party have swallowed the Iron Lady myth. Rachel Reeves must abandon it for good.
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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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