TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
Post-democracy: After the Crises by Colin Crouch
Timely warning about the dangers of neoliberalism as the only game in town
NEOLIBERAL INTERVENTIONIST: Cambridge Anaytica's CEO Alexander Nix
The bard rests on his laurels, and swipes left and right
MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium
ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review The Courageous, The Cut, Christy, and On Swift Horses
TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain
Chris Searle speaks to accordionist KAREN STREET
POST-DEMOCRACY is a follow-on from Colin Crouch’s previous book, published in 2003, about the threats to democracy that have been emerging in many advanced capitalist countries.
It argued that democratic structures were being hollowed out, with power increasingly concentrated in wealthy business elites, along with their political counterparts who were backing them. Neoliberalism was becoming the only game in town.
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