the thursday essay: all articles

Thursday 11th October

Blood and soil: the global history of genocide

The murderous impulse to mass violence has deep roots in human experience

Thursday 4th October

The power of the few

Globalisation connects and fragments the world. Its contradictions are inside us - and transforming us

Thursday 20th September

The US foreign-policy future: a progressive-realist union?

A fashionable case for a post-neocon alliance is flawed
Thursday 13th September

The seductions of denial

Why is evidence-based, reason-fuelled research the subject of a great refusal?
Thursday 30th August

Nashi: Russia’s youth counter-movement

The Kremlin deploys the young to halt the democracy train
Thursday 9th August

Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?

"Everything is broken, and there is total movement." Ivan Briscoe plunges into the maelstrom of the "Bolivarian revolution"

Thursday 2nd August

China goes global

China's purchase of a stake in Barclays bank signals a new phase in its global economic strategy
Thursday 12th July

"Terror doctors": anatomy of a void concept

How can saviours of life become takers? And does the history of Islamic medicine have any place in this grisly story?

Thursday 28th June

Egypt: a diagnosis

Egypt is stuck: its politics blocked, its young frustrated, its future cloudy. Is there a way out?

Thursday 21st June

"The Islamist": a radical journey

Ed Husain's entanglement with radical Islam is a lesson in the seductions of dogma
Thursday 14th June

The secret visitations of memory

Palestinians' modern experience is defined by exile, remembrance and longing. How can the past give meaning to the present?
Monday 4th June

At the Red Mosque in Islamabad

Inside Islamabad's Red Mosque, Anatol Lieven reports on a challenge that reaches far beyond Pervez Musharraf's regime
Wednesday 30th May

Tony Blair and Europe

Tony Blair promised to renew a fractious relationship. Did he? Simon Berlaymont takes the measure
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