Reading list

The items listed on this page are all relevant to the politics of the New Progressive. However, opinions expressed in them may not in all cases reflect our views.

Articles online

The following recommended articles and speeches are all available online.

The Doctrine of the International Community - Speech by Tony Blair to the US-based Global Policy Forum, 22 April 1999.

New Threats for Old - Lady Thatcher’s 1996 John Findley Green Lecture, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, on the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s renowned ‘Fulton Speech’.

Liberal Democracy vs Transnational Progressivism: the Future of the Ideological Civil War Within the West - landmark article by John Fonte of the Hudson Institute.

Why I am a progressive - by Melanie Phillips, published in the New Statesman, January 2000.

It’s the demography, stupid - Mark Steyn’s January 2006 article in the Wall Street Journal’s online Opinion Journal in which he outlines ‘the real reason the West is in danger of extinction’.

We managed to make a mess of Europe for decades. Now lead on - A Times article by Michael Gove, dating from July 2005, on the management of decline.

The Tyranny of Moderation: Respect and Civility are the Enemies of Free Speech - by Oliver Kamm, 22 May 2007.

Liberalism vs Islamism - a presentation by Melanie Phillips at the Neo conference in Stockholm, Sweden, 11 May 2007.

Working Definition of Antisemitism - from the EUMC (the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia), now known as the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.

The Euston Manifesto - a statement of the case for liberal interventionism from a centre-left perspective.

Books

The following books are highly recommended:

Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy by Oliver Kamm.

What’s Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen.

America Alone by Mark Steyn.

The British Moment: The Case for Democratic Geopolitics in the Twenty-first Century by the Henry Jackson Society.

Neoconservatism: Why We Need It by Douglas Murray.