“... could expand opportunities for all. Far from being fatalists and diehard enemies of progress, they may even have been overconfident about the power of democratically elected political authority to regulate the market for moral reasons, to reduce poverty, to increase educational opportunity, to avoid war. The real road to serfdom, according to Cold War liberals ...”

“... however reactionary – can meet these historical criteria, at least in the West (Modi’s BJP may be a different story). It’s hard not to wonder if this historicism serves to rob the term of its utility.Their book​ isn’t concerned with the right, however, but with left-populist responses to the post-2008 world. The potted narratives offered are ...”

“... pressure from the UN, since the ‘unique relationship’ policy outlined in a White House memo of May 1961 still applies: ‘Israel must know that if attacked, it can count on United States action inside and outside the United Nations.’ Biden is known to dislike Netanyahu, but at the height of the killings they were talking every other day. The Israeli ...”

“... and the war in Gaza, but they do cover the brief war that broke out between Israel and Hamas in May 2021. Biden expressed support for Netanyahu during nine days of Israeli airstrikes and Hamas rocket attacks, and then told him over the phone: ‘Hey man, we’re out of runway here. It’s over.’ Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt. It was ...”

“... moving back to Ireland but she returned from her last visit disheartened. It was too late. This may have been the final blow, for in the strange years in New York during which she found herself steadily more marginalised by her age and temperament and by the beginnings of illness, she sank deeper into her past. But it was a past whose landscape and ...”

“... city living that it’s hard at first to parse the connection, though the chateau in Alençon may be just out of the frame. Yet Watteau, admired by the French Symbolists for his balance of gaiety and melancholy, is not un-Tonksian. His great subject was sad clowns; it might be hers too. Walter Pater said that Watteau ‘was always a seeker after something ...”

“... bricks and be called home by its inhabitants. At least for a while. The buildings in America may be on the move, but it’s nothing compared to the lack of fixity of the people. Even houses that are built in situ, in towns and suburbs, have, no matter what the diversity of architectural style, an air of slightly rackety impermanence, as if their original ...”

“... and goods in real time and never got further than resembling a set for a bad sci-fi movie. It may be that the latest AI technology will soon be able to ‘do’ freedom as Hayek understood it. Perhaps liberation isn’t only for humans after all. But there are grounds for Hayekians to be nervous of Silicon Valley’s ambitions in this area – let alone ...”

“... streaming haplessly down his face. I tried to make conversation with him, but got nowhere. He may have been deaf, but I’m not sure. In any case, he seemed to me like a haunted version of his earlier self, his proverbial ugliness, his pipe and his nondescript clothing hanging about him like so many props on a deserted stage. I was very active in ...”

“... bring peace to the realm. Those who supported Hugh no doubt hoped for political advantage; they may also have decided that he would be the more effective ruler. The legitimacy of his rule was challenged, not least in its first years, when a rebellion by the rejected Charles of Lorraine nearly succeeded in toppling him. But this needs to be set against the ...”

“... from ‘this old Two Face, creator-creature, mind-matter, right-wrong, of which every proposition may be affirmed or denied’. These stuttered antinomies capture his ping-pong between a bodiless idealism and a wry admission that nature ‘will not be Buddhist’ and ‘rushes into persons’. The gratuitousness of nature and the stubbornness of other people ...”

“... Britain had sent Russia in 1853: a reinforced fleet was despatched to the Constantinople area in May 1876, to signal that Britain would not accept the Eastern powers’ bullying of the Ottomans. The aim was to stop a Russo-Ottoman war, but in 1877 Russian domestic pressure, and Ottoman pride, proved too strong. Russia hoped for a swift victory to erase the ...”

“... she has had to cede the European stage to Starmer and Macron. In retrospect, the 2022 election may have marked the end of a period of exceptional electoral volatility, during which a tripolar political system seemed to be emerging. It was Salvini who brought voters with populist inclinations back from the M5S to the right, while the M5S itself has moved to ...”

“... the precursors, all the previous attempts to solve the problem.’ ‘Back in 1997 there was Tim May’s BlackNet …’ May was a crypto-anarchist, who had been operating and agitating in the cypherpunk community since the mid-1980s. ‘Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and ...”