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80 years after Benito Mussolini’s death, what can democracies today learn from his fascist rise?

Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them seriously enables their success.

Matthew Sharpe

One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our age of digital...

It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the culture wars. A dialogue of great...

Political operatives on the far right have long spoken about their ambition to shift the “Overton window”. The aim is to “mainstream” ideas long...