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October 5, 2018Some political theorists dislike the term ‘office politics', on the grounds that the familiarity of the first word diminishes the significance of the second. Sure, they...
July 27, 2018One of the minor disappointments about Obama was that he played golf. It's true that most modern American presidents have liked to play golf – just about everyone from...
July 13, 2018Considerable ink has been spilled in the past two years over the state of democracy. In the last year alone, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt published How Democracies...
June 15, 2018As the world continues its Trumpian turn away from soft power towards the colder comforts of hard power, some moments now look like straws in the wind. In late November 2010 the...
May 16, 2018This is the age of anger. It is also the age of regret. While voters are busy channelling their rage at the way things are going, more and more public figures are giving voice to...
