Traditions beyond politics
For much of my life I have thought about questions of politics and government. How can…
The return of the venal office and tax-farmer
The French Revolution was in part a revolt against a degraded court, whose profligacy in prestige…
Political order and political decay in Australia
If there has been a single problem facing contemporary democracies, either aspiring or well established, it…
Millennial predictions: cities will wither
Paris. London. New York. Perhaps Tokyo. Never Sao Paolo. Never Mumbai. So sings the liberal cultural…
Notes on the death of culture (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Mario Vargas Llosa reviews, in the overture to this work, four influential essays on the traumatic…