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Faith: a Christmas reflection

Bondi: four takes

Peter Thiel and me

When the facts change what do I do?

Can the centre hold?

Democracy as theatre

Kilkenomics edition

When it all fell apart

Getting a dictator to whip us into line edition

Want to cut hospital mistakes? Don't pay for them.

Are you living your best life or your bullshit life?

We can’t talk it through any more: why?

Stella Bowen

Government panto: the show goes on

The Shared Center: Awakening our Better Angels

Neoliberalism: the agony and the ecstacy

Fixing the world, one video at a time

Amnesia as a way of life

Was Jefferson's republic always doomed?

Ways of seeing (and not seeing)

Blessed are they who wrestle with the inconsistencies of their tribe

Into the abyss - we're kind of in it already

Ideology and the magicians' misdirection

Democracy: the three legged stool

How adversarialism holds back abundance

Random acts of demagoguery

The Anti-Woke Right Doesn’t Deserve the West

Watching on as things hollow out …

Young adults: Why so unhappy?

Don't mention the war

Anti-anti-semitism and the right

If good people don’t grasp difficult things, bad people will

How the UK might have handled its grooming gangs

Institutions that are fit for human habitation

What could possibly go wrong?

Crimes of the modern era: sorting them out

Regime change: What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile in an aspiring autocracy near you

What really happened between Donald and Elon

The lighter side of being president while senile

Performative suicide

What to do when the Nazis come knocking

What ails millennials?

Why Labor won

Trusting America

Post-liberalism: not a lot to like …

Collective governance or tyranny?

Bullshit ahead

The AI apocalypse: Enjoy it while it lasts

The (empty) content of our Characters

The self-blame game: the only one worth playing

Crises created, crises avoided, crises wasted

Competitive or rent-seeking oligarchy: The coming global battle

What is an agonocracy?

There's a theory of everything for that …

Extra edition: On the disintegration of American democracy: how far can it go?

When the constitution is torn asunder

Why Trump's tariffs are better than you think — and much worse

We're not on a slippery slope: we're in free fall

The agony and the ecstacy: the carnage and the madness

Controversial salutes edition

Pointing out the obvious

Management as a locust plague

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The logic of democracy (both kinds)

Love and gratitude

Me, the FT and Public private digital partnerships: SHOCK!

What I've been doing lately