Jonathan Rauch

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Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the election result echoes a similar refusal by Germany’s right to accept that Germany had been defeated in 1918. Photograph: Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Beware of Trump’s legacy to political culture

I have been intrigued in the last few days by a number of insightful international press columns dissecting what Donal Trump has meant to his country’(...)

How much of ageing is really a reflection not of biology but of how society views and treats us? Photograph: iStock
Middle age is dead. Long live (a long-lived) middle age

“I have mixed feelings about the term ‘middle-aged’. Although you think of dowdy, worn-down women, personally, it feels like I’m entering a new phase (...)

One of the anti-EU campaign leaders, Michael Gove, summed up the mood when he dismissed the economic facts of life by saying that people had had enough of experts. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Stephen Collins: Ireland not immune to virus that spawned Donald Trump’s success

The emergence of Donald Trump as a serious candidate for the American presidency and the decision of the British people to leave the European Union ar(...)