Book review
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Review: The Little Black Book of the Populist Right. What it is, Why it's on the March and how to Stop it, by Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
Elisabeth Carter reviews a readable little book on the rise and spread of national populism.
- Populism
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Review: What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
Israel's catastrophic failures.
- Human Rights
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Review: Fragile Victory. The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order
Liberalism: A view from America.
- Progressive Politics
- USA
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Review: Left Is Not Woke, by Susan Neiman
Why each kind of wokeness now experiences its own oppressed minority like a separate ‘tribe’.
- Identity Politics
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Review: The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order, by Glenn Diesen
Diesen's conclusion is optimistic and pessimistic in equal measure.
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Review: They Called it Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence, by Lauren Benton
The language of imperial violence.
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Review: Ten Years to Save the West, by Liz Truss
In her memoir, Liz Truss is adamant that her approach was needed and is still needed.
- Conservative Party
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Review: Spectres of Pessimism. A Cultural Logic of the Worst, by Mark Schmitt
A substantial literature has emerged which is committed to articulating perspectives of philosophical pessimism.
- Progressive Politics
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- Sovereignty
- Decolonisation
- USA
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Review: How Democracies Live. Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies, by Stein Ringen
Many books lately have told us of democracy's decline or death. Stein Ringen is not so glum.
- Progressive Politics
