Economics
The balance of power
Economics will be key in the looming new Cold War between the US and China
A short history of UBI
Universal Basic Income has been around for a while
Reckless US faces a reckoning
Trump’s spending spree will mean sky-high inflation and interest rates
Nazi blueprint for postwar integration
How Walther Funk’s 1940 memo predicted the rise of the European Union
What price coronavirus?
Politicians had no choice but to order a national lockdown — but the cost to the country may still be too great
Unequal to the task
Jamie Whyte reviews Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
PAYE makes the world go round
Jamie Blackett reviews Daylight Robbery by Dominic Frisby
Why the coronavirus shutdown is worth it
Decisive action to slow the spread of Covid-19 is a no brainer
Sunak’s folly
The Chancellor’s rash splurge on infrastructure is a worrying sign that Britain’s economic policy is heading in the wrong direction
The meaningless Covid-19 models
Which, if any, expert estimates should we take seriously?
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
