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Imagined communities can’t conquer invisible enemies

Imagined communities can’t conquer invisible enemies

This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localised. It’s going to be happening all over the country. And I want America to understand that.–US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, 5 April 2020 The idea that the...
What if the centre holds?

What if the centre holds?

The journalistic cliche du jour – ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’ – from WB Yeats’ poem ‘The Second Coming’ was quoted more often in the first seven months of 2016 than any other year in the past three decades....
Democracy is dead. It was killed in plain sight

Democracy is dead. It was killed in plain sight

Democratic states have only ever existed as an ideal – an abstraction more malleable than is often acknowledged and a form of government utterly incompatible with capitalism. ‘We must make our choice,’ warned the American jurist Louis Brandeis, ‘[w]e may have...