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‘How could social transformation come to pass when so many, even those thirsting to change things, had written off the possibility of changing people’s minds?’ Anand Giridharadas, ‘The Persuaders’ (2022).

Promoting a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles

One of the contradictions about South Africa is that the people with the best solutions to our many problems have the least power to implement them at scale – and the people with the most power have the fewest solutions. I realised this again when I attended a gathering organised by Columba Lea...

Anand Giridharadas. The Persuaders. Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age, Allen Lane 2022 Anand Giridharadas wrote a highly successful book in 2019 called Winners Take All. It dealt with the strategy of the world’s rich who set themselves up to serve equality and justice in order to counter threats to the social order that […]

The newsworthy wit of Marina Hyde, the historical roots of British nostalgia, and two takes on a divided US

New Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite books of 2022.