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His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins

As white ethnic minorities fall in population share, their polarisation increases. We need a deeper conversation

Schooling underpinned by critical thinking is the bedrock of civilisation. It could save us from today’s infantilised discourse

Japan’s population shrinks by half a million every year. Is it already too late to reverse this decline?

It is tempting to hope that ordinary people will rise up and demand change. But we are more likely to see poverty exacerbated

Emergencies not only spark new, rational fears but also reignite old, irrational ones

The unpopular president’s reforms exposed a deep discontent. The response to the pandemic has made his problems worse

The central political fact of our time is the defeat of the Left. Whether they are radical leftists or centre-leftists, liberal internationalists or neo-Stalinists, what binds them together is their experience of

Of all that winter’s acts of bravery, the most memorable, for me, was the sign-language interpreter’s revolt. Instead of obediently relaying the rigged result of Ukraine’s presidential election on the state-run news,