Mr Habermas, did you ever think Brexit would be possible? What did you feel when you heard of the Leave campaign’s victory? It never entered my mind that populism would…
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Reformist social democracy has just two problems that result in its crisis. The first is that it’s heading in the wrong direction. The second is that it’s heading in the…
Some activist-scholars, Eszter Kováts writes, have turned social justice into a latter-day religion, with perverse effects.
In its Working for the Few briefing paper, Oxfam has called attention to a worrying trend: the wealth of 1% of the world’s richest people is equivalent to a total…
Social democracy has been – traditionally – in favour of internationalization. In overcoming nationalism, that internationalism symbolized both the openness of social democracy to people and to (economic) progress. Yet,…
Against plutocrats and autocrats, the progressive response must be active defence of equality—not as slogan, but also as material condition.
A new papal encyclical exposes the democratic trilemma shaping how the world governs artificial intelligence.
Robert Misik steers a path between Germans hunting ‘anti-Semites’ everywhere and being seen as accomplices to an ‘Israeli genocide’.
I was puzzled by Daniel Gros’ recent column in which he claims that Germany’s dominance of the EMU may be coming to an end. Gros’ argument is based on two…
More than three years have passed since Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid and inadvertently lit the spark of regional upheaval. The resulting…
Like Macbeth, policymakers tend to commit new sins to cover up their old misdemeanors. And political systems prove their worth by how quickly they put an end to their officials’…
Trump has followed the Heritage Foundation’s 920-page blueprint almost to the letter, and its real enemy is internationalist socialism.
Donald Trump has taken the exercise of power to its most absurd extreme. He rules a state that he seeks to destroy.
The crisis of neoliberalism and war in Europe have left all that was solid melting into air.
Trump’s MAGA agenda poses as anti-globalist—but masks a self-serving, chaotic new form of globalism.
Can we manage the globalized world we have created? Every day seems to bring new evidence to the contrary. From the wars in the Middle East to nuclear tensions in…
The centrist Emmanuel Macron’s success in the first round of the French presidential election is likely to re-energize Europe. Unlike the other candidates, Macron does not just recognize the need…