From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
US Politics
Many thanks to Hannah for her beautiful post on George Eliot’s Silas Marner and the evacuation of moral purpose from the Protestant work ethic. That resonates with Hijacked, my latest book, which traces the history of the work ethic from 17th century Puritan theologians, through the economic theory and policy debates of the 18th and […]
New polling suggests that voters do not want the President to further involve the US in the Middle East conflict
Only one thing is clear about the events of the past week. We are now living in an age of chaos, argues the author and former diplomat Arthur Snell
The anti-Trump protesters have done a far better job than the President of honouring what Americans have fought and died for, reports Adam Barnett
The man described as the Vice President's "philosopher king" is linked to a series of right-wing billionaires who have condemned democracy and called for a "limited dictatorship" in the US
It's time to shake off our 'Trump denial syndrome' and wake up to the clear and present danger posed by the President, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
A clear majority of Americans are opposed to the US President's army parade, and his handling of immigration and the economy
You may have viewed Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) offering a mock apology for dismissing a constituent’s complaint that the Medicaid cuts she endorses will cause people to die with the flippant remark, “We are all going to die.” She tied her defense of her callousness to Christianity, inviting all who worried about death to convert […]
In an era of Donald Trump's naked self-service, Alexandra Hall Hall pays tribute to the passing of a true American public servant, Richard L Armitage