A keynote essay for the Battle of Ideas 2008
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A keynote essay for the Battle of Ideas 2008
Continue reading “Lead on, Macduff*: McLeadership and the real thing”
Gang Leader for a Day, by Sudhir Venkatesh, Cop in the Hood, by Peter Moskos, Homicide, by David Simon
Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, edited by William Dinan and David Miller
A new book on scary shills whitewashes the intellectual failures of the left, and shirks the task of putting forward a political alternative.
The Terror Dream, by Susan Faludi (Atlantic Books 2008)
What’s so bad about abortion?, Future of Abortion conference, London, 24 June 2008
How an unloved system survives by default, and how its would-be critics condemn us to more of the same
Continue reading “Cynical capitalism, cynical anti-capitalism”
Maximilien Robespierre was a fearless critic of tradition and incorruptibly committed to liberty: a million miles from today’s webcam jihadists. Continue reading “Defending the Terror”
The Islamist, by Ed Husain
Critiques of Hizb ut-Tahrir focus less on its dodgy politics than on its intellectualism. But what’s wrong with a devotion to the debate of ideas? Continue reading “In defence of ‘radicalisation’”
The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it, by Dan Hind (Verso 2007)
Dolan Cummings 