4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (534+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 The inheritance of an empire This has produced the central paradox of Putinism. The harder Russia has tried to restore her empire, the more rapidly many of her former imperial possessions have sought protection against her. Russia is…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1508+ words) By Matthew ParishWednesday 9 September 2026There is a persistent tendency amongst Donald Trump’s opponents to describe him as a fascist, an authoritarian, a populist or even a would-be dictator. Each of these descriptions captures something about him, but they may all suffer…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1027+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 Indeed, the paradox may ultimately be that Vladimir Putin’s attempt to prevent the emergence of a strong, European Ukraine has accelerated precisely that outcome. The country that will emerge from the war The arsenal of Europe Russia sought…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (21+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 From Lviv to Kyiv From volunteer to defence professional The second front: reconstruction The republic of volunteers...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1561+ words) Wednesday 9 September 2026 Ukraine should be prepared to compromise substantially to end this terrible war. She should not compromise upon anything that determines whether Russia can successfully start it again. That distinction ought to define the Ukrainian red lines. The value…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (589+ words) Tuesday 8 September 2026 The mathematics of power Great Powers begin with scale, and India’s scale is extraordinary. India has approximately 1.48 billion people. The International Monetary Fund expects its economy to grow by about 6.4 per cent in 2026 — an exceptionally rapid rate for…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (653+ words) Monday 7 September 2026 There are two famous propositions about war and politics, and the war in Ukraine provides an unusually terrible laboratory in which to test them. The first belongs to Carl von Clausewitz: War is the continuation of politics by…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1547+ words) Monday 7 September 2026 Artificial intelligence presents us with the possibility that intelligence will cease to be scarce. Artificial general intelligence threatens to overturn that division of labour. If machines can eventually reason better than we can, acquire knowledge faster than we…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (975+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 Perhaps this tells us something important. The problem may not principally be that artificial intelligence has failed to become general. It may be that we never decided what “general intelligence” meant in the first place. What is AGI…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (675+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 Hayek would have recognised the intellectual structure of this phenomenon immediately. He would also have thought much of it profoundly dangerous. The problem of knowledge Hayek’s most important contribution to economics was not really the familiar proposition that…...