"Did it have to come to this? The paradox is that when Europe was less united, it was in many ways more independent. T…"

"Self-satisfaction is scarcely unfamiliar in Europe. But the contemporary mood is something different: an apparently i…"

"Beyond the discrepant local sympathies of these careers – with their splay of temporary identities: Conservative, Zio…"

"Polemical zeal can produce an fixation on the other side, or sides, of purely hostile intent."

"Politics is not a self-enclosed activity, organically generating a body of concepts internal to it. What counts as a …"

"The classical legacies of political thought, from Plato to Nietzsche, and the immediate tasks of running the world, a…"

"What kind of political order, then, is taking shape in Europe, 15 years after Maastricht? The pioneers of European in…"

"The dichotomies which are the signature of their work – the esoteric and the exoteric, the civil and the managerial, …"

"The trope was eminently Oakeshottian. Politics was not a battle of interests, or a quest for truth, or a voyage of pr…"

"Putin’s control of the media is becoming more and more comprehensive. What is left over, that ownership does not ensu…"