On the protests in Iran.

Brzezinski supported Détente, albeit with mounting tactical criticisms, until the mid-1970s. As I set out, he was seen as a ...

Eliding the means while embracing the end: in classical rhetoric, the passage between the two is effected by enthymeme, whose ...

Looking narrowly at the strong balance sheets of the leading hyperscalers – Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet – the AI boom ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized in ...

Students of parliamentary history are familiar with the idea of ‘Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition’. Marxism, as a social-historical phenomenon, has been Her Modern Majesty’s Opposition to ...

This influence of Marx on the writing of history is not a self-evident development. For although the materialist conception of history is the core of Marxism, and although everything Marx wrote is ...

Few contemporary political upheavals have been as dramatic as the events that have convulsed Venezuela in the past five years. In 1998, former paratroop colonel Hugo Chávez was elected President by a ...

It is ironic that Foucault had to go all the way to ancient Greece to grapple with contemporary political problems. Only at that distance, it seems, could he see clearly, like the farsighted reader ...

The Century of Revolution 1603—1714, by Christopher Hill: Nelson, 1961. 25s. the volume is the fifth in a series by different experts on English history, and wears the modest guise of a book for sixth ...