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What comes after liberalism?

capitalism

Mafiacracy

What comes after liberalism?

Post-liberals and the like must anticipate the kinds of non-liberal regimes into which liberal regimes over time may decay

Michael Lind

Democrats are desperate for a new Bill Clinton

Viewed three decades on, his two election wins seem one of US history’s happier twists

Robin Ashenden

Why America has more lawyers per capita than any other country

While the regulatory state has expanded steadily for decades, its costs have grown dramatically under Biden

Ruchir Sharma

Against the obsession with water bottles

The water bottle is Gen Z’s version of a purse dog, only heavier and less likely to destroy your handbag

Zak Asgard

Book Review

Capitalism isn’t to blame for our failing economies

In reality, we could hardly be further from a purely Hayekian world than we are today

Matthew Lynn

Book Review
February 28, 2024
The life of peasants was not pleasant
Patrick Joyce’s latest book is really an ode, an elegiac lament for the passing of a distinctive way of life
Jonathan Sumption
Book Review
December 20, 2023
A vigorous and persuasive defense of capitalism
Johan Norberg’s A Capitalist Manifesto has much to commend it
Michael M. Rosen
Film
October 21, 2023
Why philosophers adore Disney
Intellectuals used Disney’s output as a testing ground for a critique of art and social structures in the 1930s and 1940s
Esther Leslie
Economics
July 15, 2023
The new corporatism that’s killing capitalism
Big business is getting bigger. That’s bad news for all of us
Joel Kotkin
Americana
October 23, 2022
Guardian writer doesn’t get why Americans love fall
A British columnist thinks our favorite season is ‘rubbish’ — no
Teresa Mull
Low Life
October 11, 2022
My evening as a rapacious capitalist
We played Monopoly with focus and seriousness
Jeremy Clarke
Culture
August 11, 2022
Four vectors of danger for America and the West
It’s not just 1970s-style omens; we’ve got plenty of new problems too
Gilbert T. Sewall
Politics
June 13, 2022
Among the green conservatives
They exist — and there are more of them than you think
Cockburn
Business
May 16, 2022
Russia and the death of the Golden Arches theory
It’s a neat, but demonstrably wrong, idea
Ross Clark
And Finally
March 24, 2022
What does ice cream have to do with ‘late capitalism’?
I dislike postmodernist architecture and big business being beastly to workers, but late capitalism seems to me quite a feeble cliché
Dot Wordsworth

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