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Sir Keir Starmer arrives at Downing Street. He's smiling, in a red tie, blue suit.

Now Comes the Hard Part

The UK’s new Labour government enjoys a huge mandate, but it must contend with imposing challenges at home and abroad.

John Lloyd

9 Jul 2024 · 14 min read

Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’

Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning.

Matt Johnson

4 Jul 2024 · 25 min read

Julian Assange looks out the window of an aeroplane. You can see his reflection mirrored in the window.

The Travesty of the Assange Plea Deal

The complacency of American liberalism has been demonstrated yet again in its inability, or unwillingness, to guard the national interest.

Brian Stewart

28 Jun 2024 · 7 min read

Free Tibet protestors in colourful costumes hold up signs

The War Against Truth

It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.

Aaron Sarin

26 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

A photo of Glenn Loury reading a book in the 1980s. He is a black man with glasses, suit and tie

Sin and Social Science

Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.

John Lloyd

24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read

A police car graffitied with "ACAB" (all cops are bastards) is set alight during the George Floyd riots.

Stop Decriminalising Crime

When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it.

Paul H. Robinson / Jeffrey Seaman

24 Jun 2024 · 11 min read

The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies

The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.