I’m sure anyone that reads this will agree that the climate crisis is real, global, and an existential threat to humans and the Earth. I don’t need to run through a list of panic-inducing statistics: the average global…
The purpose of the first version of this essay, written in April of last year, was to examine some of the prominent liberal theories over the last few centuries, and suggest a liberal model of violence between…
Earlier in October, US Attorney General Robert Barr gave the greenlight for the execution of Lisa Montgomery. Though she was convicted of a very serious (capital) crime—she had killed…
There is a good chance that I’ll look very silly by writing my thoughts on this topic down before the election. I could wait until November 4th before penning some polemic for or against Nate Silver—declaring after the fact that…
For years, we liberals have decried our opponents on the left and right for their hopelessly facile solutions to deeply complex problems. Witness Labour deciding higher education could be solved by “just making it free”; the Conservatives claiming…
In the Tory manifesto for the 2015 election, the party pledged to keep the Department for International Development independent within Whitehall. Yet just five years on, Prime Minister Johnson has…
There are at least two major models for understanding politics in the West, and indeed across the world. The first is the well-known left-right spectrum, where parties are situated in terms of their leanings and policies. It’s hard…
With eight million Britons living in housing that is overcrowded, unaffordable or otherwise unsuitable, more and more adults lodging with their parents, and as increasing numbers finding themselves homeless, it seems the housing crisis has in recent years…
If Teen Vogue is a good indicator of the state of popular discourse (and of course it is), Marx is back. As the liberal capitalist order is facing its biggest crisis since 1945, people are returning to its most famous critic. This is deeply unfortunate.
This society takes the view that traditional tariff protection, overall, is bad for societal welfare; but given the growing prevalence of non-tariff measures, the welfare effects of neo-protectionism are a lot more ambiguous.