an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

Rather than a lesson in how to beat the right, this seems likely to prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the centre. Read on: ...

On the contrary, he has indicated that because the central bank’s quantitative easing policies mean that it is in effect ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Robert Brenner’s article in nlr 104 concerns a number of issues that have been the subject of debate within Marxism.footnote 1 Its focus is the explanation of the origins of capitalism, and related ...

But part of the role of radical agitation, of political speculation and of utopian art and culture is to gesture towards the ...

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After eighteen years, Die Linke is no longer a presence in the German Bundestag. When Sahra Wagenknecht and nine other MPs quit the party last October, the remaining deputies lost their status as a ...

When the multi-hyphenate scholar of science Bruno Latour died last October at the age of 75, tributes poured in from all corners of academia and many beyond. In the aughts, Latour had been a ...

As if demonstrating that the repressed does return, politics has erupted in the supposedly apolitical world of American psychoanalysis. An advocacy group, Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and a documentary ...

There has been a lively debate on the American left about the Biden Administration’s industrial strategy. Discussion has focused on the prospects opened up by the massive stimulus – totalling some $4 ...