When authoritarian populists employ the speech forms once deployed to counter totalitarians, how are we to critique what we consider abuses? wonders Deborah Cameron
People face a daily blizzard of statistics and figures. With his book Millions, Billions, Zillions, Brian Kernighan tries to help them through the storm. Matthew Reisz writes
The lecturer in international business and strategy and author of Supermarket USA on big books, the ‘Cold War Farms Race’ and jazzed-up propaganda battles
David Katz on a compelling and brutally honest memoir of a Jewish peace activist with Ta’ayush, an organisation that works with Palestinians in the West Bank
The political scientist and author of The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity on fictional fascinations, mature reflections and dancing to the music of Powell
In recounting their journeys, female writers could talk about themselves, their values, their civic engagement and their responses to contemporary affairs in Britain, writes Abigail Williams
An openness and willingness to question oneself are the foundations of democracy and should be defended robustly, argues Michael Ignatieff, president of Hungary’s Central European University, in a new book
