Existential Politics
Ben CobleyBritish writer Ben Cobley's distinctive, existential take on politics and culture.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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Does Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue give us the basis for a political philosophy?
I had a new piece published by Unherd on Friday, given the title ‘Alasdair MacIntyre was right all along’.
It can be a strange experience reading your own work when published, as if you wrote it in a former life or even not at all. I fell...
V. S. Naipaul's encounter with 'the new Islam'
I’ve had an article published by The Critic on V. S. Naipaul and the double movement of modern Islam towards and away from the West. It’s based on his book Among the Believers, which documents a journey to four Islamic countries – Iran, Pak...
The tragedy of the centre-left
The Critic has published a piece of mine entitled ‘Britain’s cosmopolitan future - 10 years on’. It’s based around a 2015 report by Economist golden boy Jeremy Cliffe for the think tank Policy Network, prophesying how “cosmopolitanism is Br...
The progressive justification for untruth
I began my first book with a quotation from the Soviet-era journalist Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate (see bottom of article). These lines, concerning what Grossman called ‘human groupings’, spoke to my book’s subject matter of identi...
How we are all progressives, really
Hello everyone.
I thought you might be interested in a piece I’ve had published for Unherd, titled ‘The progressive mindset has won: We all think history is on our side’.
It considers an idea that I put forward in The Progress Trap but d...
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Writer and journalist. Author of 'The Tribe: the liberal-left and the system of diversity' (Societas, 2018) and 'The Progress Trap' (Polity, due May 2025). Ex-Labour. Into books, thought, classical music.
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