Boyd Tonkin's review of new books about private hopes and public goods calls on politicians to take heed.
Dan Hind's The Return of the Public is praised as "a book marked by a sombre and scathing rhetoric that recalls the Frankfurt School critique of thinkers such as Adorno and Marcuse."
Dan Hind, author of The Threat to Reason and the forthcoming The Return of the Public, has launched a renewed offensive against Britain's "absurdly" one-sided libel legislation for the Guardian's "Comment is Free" ...