Slavoj Žižek interview: “Trump created a crack in the liberal centrist hegemony”
The Marxist philosopher on why catastrophe gives him hope.
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Jonathan Haidt interview: “I’m Jewish but I want my kids to read Mein Kampf”
The social psychologist discusses his book The Coddling of the American Mind and the age of identity wars.
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Momentum head Jon Lansman on the left’s unfinished revolution
The veteran Bennite organiser on Brexit, Gramsci, the Soviet Union and planning for “when Jeremy and I are both dead”.
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Paul Collier: “Move left on the economy and talk the language of belonging”
The Oxford University professor and author of The Future of Capitalism on how to heal deep rifts in society.
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Yanis Varoufakis: “The EU declared war and Theresa May played along”
The former Greek finance minister on how a bad Brexit deal became inevitable and his plan to transform Europe.
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Wolfgang Streeck: “A second referendum could tear society apart more than the first”
For the British liberal left, Wolfgang Streeck feels only pity. Remainers cling to a “sacralised” European project that “hasn’t done…
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Francis Fukuyama interview: “Socialism ought to come back”
The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears a US-China…
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German Left Party leader Katja Kipping: “As a Marxist, you can never be dogmatic”
The Corbyn ally on how to defeat the far right, the EU's flaws and what she's learned from Labour.
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