The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
It would be a mistake to see the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his political views in relation to Palestine as ...
Two recent books, by Peter Beinart and Rachel Shabi, discuss the response of Jewish communities in the West to the Hamas attacks of 7 October and Israel’s subsequent destruction of Palestinian life in ...
De Orta also tells stories, for example about the Persian opium enthusiast he met when serving as a physician at the court of ...
Nigeria already struggles with inadequate healthcare funding. This year’s budget allocates only 5.18 per cent of ...
On the third morning of his ill-fated occupation of Moscow, Napoleon Bonaparte woke up in the Kremlin to find the city on fire. The isolated blazes set by the retreating Russian armies had spread ...
What makes a ruler a tyrant? Is it justifiable to depose or even kill one? Medieval political theorists devoted anguished thought to these questions. In the 12th century, John of Salisbury urged ...
Irecently came across a Labour Party pamphlet from 2010. ‘Every one of us needs to roll up our sleeves and get to work to build strong and tolerant communities,’ it reads, ‘arguing the case for the ...
When DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese company been able to develop something that could compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT or ...