How most organisations lose their mission
Every bureaucracy is eventually captured by its administrators, and the mission is what they sacrifice first.
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Honest conversations about the crisis of liberalism, elite capture, and the political and cultural renewal we actually need.
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In a culture of narcissism the common good cannot thrive
My recent essay on the failing environmental movement drew considerable attention and resonated with many environmentalists across Europe and North America.
The Green Bubble: How Environmentalism Lost the People It Needs Most
The environmental movement’s biggest challenge today is not climate denial. It is the way the movement itself has evolved.
Do we have a moral responsibility to reduce our personal carbon emissions?
A new book makes a compelling case against individual moral obligation — but it also opens a door onto something older, and in some ways more demanding.
Beyond the surveillance state: a post-liberal vision for human and environmental flourishing
In 1968, biologist Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, predicting that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation.
The Ministry of Truth delusion
How the fight against disinformation is achieving the opposite of its intended outcome
Mass immigration is destroying Europe's high-trust societies
Many on the left, in politics and culture, have no idea what they are wishing for. Or have they lost their minds?
Why can't journalists just tell the truth?
An entire profession turned into activists without even realising it. The European media's coverage of Charlie Kirk and RF Kennedy Jr. illustrates how pervasive and damaging disinformation has become.
Notes on a non-debate in Barcelona about immigration
While the debate on immigration in Britain is accelerating rapidly, questioning the country's high levels of immigration is still taboo in Spain.
The dark side of diversity politics
How the obsessive focus on victimhood comes at the expense of ordinary people's interests, thereby weakening society as a whole without actually improving the lives of those it aims to help