After an early line in lurid depictions of the overindulged bodies of the NEPman and NEPwoman, entrepreneurial harbingers of ...

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

Having never previously aligned themselves with either the left or right bloc, the Greens successfully pivoted to the left in this election, making headway on the issues of oil and Palestine. The ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (1930), set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the army general Stumm von Bordwehr asks, ‘How can those directly involved in what’s happening know ...

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 ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman does not mince his words: the signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something ...

The return of industrial policy is unmissable, catalyzed by the cumulative shocks of Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine as well as longer-term structural issues: the ecological crisis, faltering ...

The number of people who have signed up for Britain’s new left-wing party has surpassed 650,000: a figure that dwarfs the membership of every other outfit in Westminster. Preparations are underway for ...

We seem to have entered a period of war without end, extending across the globe and unsettling even the central nodes of the world system. Each contemporary conflict has its own genealogy and stakes, ...

The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and its knock-on effects such as the bailout of Credit Suisse has elicited the usual flurry of social-psychologizing in the ‘quality press’. On a recent New York ...