Johan Gärdebo
Johan Gärdebo is a historian at Uppsala University and a Research Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He tweets at @JohanGardebo
Allocating blame in the name of climate change
Dwelling on the question of historical responsibility for climate change helps no one
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness