Samuel Earle
Samuel Earle is a writer based in London. His first book Tory Nation: How One Party Conquered the UK was published in 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
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Are Australia’s bushfires our future?
Amid the global consequences of a pandemic, the fires that devastated the country earlier this year can seem less…
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How Albert Camus’s The Plague became the defining book of the coronavirus crisis
Camus’s novel, first published in 1947, has become a global sensation. It is, it seems, the novel for now.
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Dirt, disease and the racist language of coronavirus
The nationalist response to the pandemic reveals the classic tropes of racism embedded in our language.
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How Berlusconi became a model for Britain
The new age of machismo.
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How white supremacists around the world are being connected
Deepening lines of communication and funding are creating the kind of loose, nefarious networks that once haunted the far-right’s…
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Heidegger, the homesick philosopher
Once discredited by his association with Nazism, Martin Heidegger is enjoying a posthumous revival. So what is it about…
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In search of lost time: how nostalgia broke politics
In 2017, the word “déclinisme” entered France’s Larousse dictionary, describing the belief that a state of decay is sweeping…
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The terrifying rehabilitation of Nazi scholar Carl Schmitt
On 29 July 2018, the anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s birth, Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini posted on Twitter “tanti…
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