How the Muslim Brotherhood has embedded itself in Western societies
The success of Islamism is down to organisation, propagation - and ambiguity
Existential Politics
British writer Ben Cobley's distinctive, existential take on politics and culture.
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Does Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue give us the basis for a political philosophy?
I think it might do
V. S. Naipaul's encounter with 'the new Islam'
A new article on the double movement towards and away from the West
The tragedy of the centre-left
An old think-tank report showed off Labour's failures in advance
The progressive justification for untruth
A Soviet argument for ‘the cover-up’, with resonance for our own situation
How we are all progressives, really
Unherd article points to how even anti-progressives show progressive assumptions
Bookshop Barnie, Tuesday 9th September, Zoom
Debate the merits of The Progress Trap in this Battle of Ideas satellite event, online
Has my book confounded its readers?
Not the book many expected given the theme of 'progress'
My speech at Verdurin book launch
How discussing progress as theory seems to miss the point
Podcast with Louise Perry on all things progressive
The self-promotion continues