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Gavin Jacobson

Gavin Jacobson

Senior Commissioning Editor at The New Statesman

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Recent Articles

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The Zone of Interest and garden variety Nazis

In a series of letters written between 1771 and 1773, Jean-Jacques Rousseau warned his friend, Madame Étienne Delessert, against the practice of horticulture. Commonly thought of as a philosopher, Rou
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Alpa Shah: India is not a safe place any more

In March 1967, in the Indian village of Naxalbari, tucked in the foothills of the Himalayas, a revolutionary peasant organisation rebelled and forcibly seized land from landowners. Inspired by its act
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Thomas Piketty: "The Labour Party is too conservative"

The French economist reflects on a decade since the publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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The Rwanda ruling

Philippe Sands is a barrister, and professor of laws and director of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. He is the author East West Street (2016), which inv
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer

Late at night on 23 February 2022, John Mearsheimer was at home in the suburbs of Chicago finishing an article for Foreign Affairs magazine on the escalating crisis in Ukraine. In the preceding weeks,
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The rise of Waterstones Dad

How the self-made man got lost in the marketplace of ideas.
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From Jacqueline Rose to Kira Yarmysh: new books reviewed in short

Also featuring Encounterism by Andy Field and Art Firsts by Nick Trend.
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Quinn Slobodian: Fantasies and fever dreams

How Quinn Slobodian, the author of Crack-Up Capitalism, came back down to earth.
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John Gray on 110 years of the New Statesman: “I regret I didn’t cri...

The philosopher on his time writing for the magazine as an essayist and critic, 1996-present.
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How The Last of Us turns the apocalypse into mindless entertainment

The latest show to profit from our obsession with dystopia reveals the limits of the genre.
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The Age of Interconnection: how the world turned global

Jonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the ideas that shaped it.
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“Justice cannot be the lodestar of a new society”

The American sociologist Dylan Riley on fascism, thinking as therapy and the crisis of capitalist democracy.
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From Elizabeth Strout to Robert Harris: recent books reviewed in short

Also featuring How To Speak Whale by Tom Mustill and a history of the Nineties by James Brooke-Smith.
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The lonely decade: how the 1990s shaped us – Audio Long Reads

Despite its optimism, the close of the 20th century brought dark warnings about the future – and many have come to pass.
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China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your...

The fantasy novelist and left activist on why Marx’s Communist Manifesto speaks to the crisis-ridden politics of the present.
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Amartya Sen: “Learning is always an act of imagination”

The philosopher and Nobel Prize winner on identity, decolonisation and how to change the world.
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Why Children of Men haunts the present moment

How Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 dystopian masterpiece became the cultural exemplum of apocalypse, and a cardinal citation in the time of coronavirus.
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Fraternity in combat: how international volunteers shaped Europe

Liz Truss’s comments on Ukraine have served to remind us of a long and radical tradition of militant solidarity.
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John le Carré’s aimless final novel

Having been caught by the world-weary spymaster George Smiley, Bill Haydon, the Soviet double agent in John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), presents a long apologia for his betrayal. “
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The Ideas Interview

The Ideas Interview
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Parenthood in an age of crisis - The New Statesman

The moral dilemmas of becoming a father.