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In Fascism Comes to America, Bruce Kuklick traces the shifting meanings of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.

In 2024, the world economy is acting more and more like an 80-year-old man than like a young vigorous economy. Perhaps the economy can continue for quite a few more years, but it increasingly looks like it is in danger of falling apart, or of...

Once seen as an outlier for progressive IT chiefs, storytelling is now becoming formalized as an essential device to communicate.

‘Julia’, Sandra Newman’s new novel, reframes George Orwell’s iconic dystopian story, placing the main female character front and centre.

Debates over free speech and the growing influence of technology, social media and politics can sideline this more expansive and ‘forgotten freedom’.

As a Jew, Arendt might have been expected to evince unalloyed sympathy for the Jewish cause. But writing as a philosopher she was too analytical to be swayed by emotion -- so much so, I would argue, she failed to pay sufficient attention to the suffering of the victims

In the 1990s the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine predicted a dystopian vision of 2024 homelessness that has parallels with reality.

Corporate and political actors know more about how our minds work than we do. The right to free thought can no longer be our ‘forgotten freedom’

The toxic masculinity influencer was arrested before he could give a new interview for this disturbing film about his rise. But he still manages to damn himself …

"... We've seen narratives created ... to delay climate action ... a challenge we cannot afford to ignore as we head into a bumper election year in 2024..."