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Robert SkidelskyProject Syndicate |
LONDON – Language shapes our thinking and perception of the world and, consequently, what happens in it. That is why I worry less about the...
LONDON – In 2003, the literary critic Fredric Jameson famously observed that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of...
LONDON – Following months of speculation and infighting, the United Kingdom’s Labour Party has officially abandoned its pledge to borrow £28...
Project Syndicate: Last year, you lamented the reversion of contemporary policy discussions to “the age-old standoff between market-based...
LONDON – A new TV drama has brought to light one of the greatest injustices in the history of the United Kingdom, prompting a long-overdue public...
LONDON – A little over a year ago, the San Francisco-based OpenAI released its chatbot, ChatGPT, triggering an artificial-intelligence gold rush and...
LONDON – The world was a relatively peaceful place during the nineteenth century. Aside from the American Civil War and China’s Taiping Rebellion,...
LONDON – Reading this fall’s selection of new nonfiction books, one cannot help but recall W.B. Yeats’ prescient lines from The Second Coming:...
LONDON – Anthony Sampson’s Anatomy of Britain , published in 1962, was a profound and scholarly work that appeared at a time when the perception...