Henry VIII turned England upside down
Henry VIII, who was born on this day in 1491, is the only English monarch other than William the Conqueror…
Zohran Mamdani and the millennial soul
Rent controls don’t have a stellar track record but I’m no expert. In any case it’s academic. At 33, New…
The strange futility of the Musk-Trump feud
The Trump-Musk spat is not the sign of a new split between oligarchs and populists, as some have claimed –…
The rise of the liberal Caesars
The triumph of Mark Carney in the Canadian election has turned what seemed like a series of local flukes into a global…
Who cares about globalization?
Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” was the culmination of a 30-year insurgency against the global economic system. It was the most…
Who did Bill Ackman think he was electing?
To take on America’s entire governing class and win, Donald Trump proved that he had an inhuman level of willfulness…
We don’t live in an age of reason
When Tucker Carlson claimed to have been “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep late last year, it was…
We don’t need ‘postliberalism’
In 1979 the price of gas at the American pump doubled to $39.50 a barrel – $172 in today’s money.…
Britain is not a technocracy
The term ‘technocracy’, or more often ‘technocrat’, is found everywhere. Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are referred to as…
