Essays by

William Davies

Control Groups

Politics has become about questions of life and death again in a way that blows a hole in a key aspect of the Hobbesian liberal project, which is that unless you declare war, politics would not be shaped by mortal concerns.

Brexit and the Facts

The slogan “take back control” was a piece of political genius. It worked on every level between the macroeconomic and the psychoanalytic.

Freeing the Market

There is a difference between “neoliberal markets” and “free markets”; if the Left wants to offer plausible economic solutions today, it needs to reconnect with its critique of the former, and make its peace with the latter.