A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...

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 ...

A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 ...

The prevailing cultural configuration in the United States is indicated by two recent items in the New York Times, whose common background is worth excavating. The first of these is a story published ...

‘If you want to be a great politician, you need great troubles; petty troubles are for petty politicians.’ So declared Nicolas Sarkozy in 2018, leaping to the defence of his protégé Gérald Darmanin – ...

The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP), agreed in principle on 8 August at a mini-summit in Washington between Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime ...

A pair of new films, directed by filmmakers from Brooklyn, reflects the resilience of the noir-ish New York crime thriller – the genre of The Naked City (1948), Killer’s Kiss (1955) and The French ...

Ari Aster, who gave the horror film a new jolt of macabre energy in Hereditary (2017) and Midsommar (2019), both concerned in part with the nightmare – or jet-black comedy – of being a daughter, has ...

It would be laughable if it were not so tragic. For at least four reasons. 1. The full-throated defence of globalization by a left that previously characterized it as the source of every human ...

Zarah Sultana is among Britain’s most prominent socialist leaders. Born in Birmingham in 1993, she became politically active in the student movement and later in the upsurge of Corbynism: serving on ...

New York City politics can seem intensely local. Yet occasionally something happens here that transfixes the world. In 1886, the insurgent mayoral campaign of Henry George seemed to shake the ...

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin became a literary figure of national importance at the age of 15, when Gavriil Derzhavin, the grand old man of Russian letters, listened in rapt attention as Pushkin read ...