Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

She’s just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have a garden. And yet, from the moment ...

In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University ...

Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of battles. Somewhere between 70,000 and 100,000 peasants were killed. Everywhere in ...

This month’s elections in England were significant without being surprising. They were dire for the Labour Party and cataclysmic for the Conservatives: neither has ever lost such a high proportion of ...

About twenty minutes’ walk from Odesa’s main railway station, down the city’s wide avenues lined with plane trees, you reach one of the hubs of the Ukrainian Côte d’Azur. Sports cars and SUVs rumble ...

The Mont Pelerin Society was set up in 1947 with the aim of ensuring that the apparent triumph of freedom over fascism in the Second World War should instead be understood as a defeat. Inspired by its ...

Piet Mondrian liked to claim that his life had been a straight line. ‘I started off as a naturalist,’ he told a journalist who visited his studio in Paris in 1922. ‘I soon felt a need for a more ...