Author Archives: Eliane Glaser

My eight-year-old daughter is being called to spot expanded noun phrases. My 11-year-old son fills in checklists of "success criteria." Are we raising children or robots?

The great liberal promise is that power must always be held to account. Agreed political rules and formal institutions are the means to honour it. But they are under assault by a populist right—and a misguided left

As Britain goes to the polls, the Belgians are turning to randomly-chosen representatives. Could they do any better?

The opposite of intolerance used to be tolerance. But as ideology has given way to identity, it has become intolerance of intolerance instead. On platforms like Twitter, a posturing left exists in unwitting symbiosis with the angry right

The alternatives look shiny and spontaneous but they’re oligarchy in disguise