Europe’s Politicians Are Idealists – But About All the Wrong Things
Aaron Bastani
When it comes to foreign policy, centrists are the real utopians.
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Engine of Immortality
What will be lost when the internet renders print culture obsolete?
Why Are Conservatives Supporting Israel’s Strategy When It Would Create Millions More Refugees?
Aaron Bastani
They don't understand that foreign policy has consequences.
Politicians Don’t Want Power – Because Then They Would Actually Have to Solve Problems
Aaron Bastani
It's easier to have faceless bureaucrats to blame.
Keir Starmer’s Position on Austerity Is Almost Identical to the Tories’
Aaron Bastani
The difference? Labour is less honest about it.
Centrist Influencers Are Dying Out
Aaron Bastani
Alastair Campbell can't carry the torch forever.
God-Like AI Is Closer Than You Think. Aaron Meets Ian Hogarth
Is the World Really Run by a ‘Leftist Elite?’ | Aaron Bastani Meets Matthew Goodwin
Everyone rails against the elite, but who are they? The left would say it’s the billionaires, the media barons, the oil tycoons, and the 1% – those who control our economy, our housing, and basic necessities. However, the right increasingly insists on the existence of a “new elite” of woke corporations, SJW celebrities, and snowflake […]
Our Elites Are on Autopilot and I Think I Know Why
Aaron Bastani
For decades they’ve had it easy - now they’re just waiting to retire.
White Collar Workers, Welcome to the Revolution
Aaron Bastani
There’s a new reserve army of labour - and they’ve got MBAs.
Britain’s Media Gatekeepers Are No Match for America’s
Aaron Bastani
Just ask Prince Harry.
Is This the Most Important Book So Far This Century?
Aaron Bastani
With Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher gave thousands an ideological toolkit to fight back.
Socialists, in 2023 Read More Fiction
Aaron Bastani
Reading literature is a remedy to capitalist realism.
Travelling Across Poland Showed Me That Britain’s Economy Is Broken
Aaron Bastani
By 2030, the average Polish family may be wealthier than their British counterparts.
No, School Isn’t Making Kids ‘Woke’
Aaron Bastani
They just hate neoliberalism.
Everything We Think We Know About Human History Is Wrong | Downstream With David Wengrow
Humans have existed for at least 200,000 years. Yet until recently, historians believed that cities, astronomy, architecture and numeracy did not arrive until agriculture emerged some 12,000 years ago. But what if that was wrong? What if cities existed before agriculture and our hunter gatherer ancestors enjoyed a far more complex existence than we thought? […]
Continuing to Live Was a Challenge. Aaron Meets Chris Packham
On the morality of having children, the Just Stop Oil protests and Southampton F.C.
Time to Say the F-Word?
Italy’s far right is in power — what now? David Broder tells Aaron Bastani just how worried to be.