It can either follow the working class along the nationalist-chauvinist road or insist on its internationalist principles at the cost of severing any remaining connection with its indispensable social ...

The existence of Rojava as a semi-autonomous space, with global symbolic resonance – for women’s liberation, unprecedented in ...

The narrative of Pax Aegyptiaca, seven millennia of civilization culminating with his ‘New Republic’, is part of the ...

During his first term as president, Trump vowed to focus primarily on the American people. Are we now, by contrast, witnessing a kind of US neo-imperialism? Trump’s programme to Make America Great ...

The stock market valuation of AI-related firms has increased tenfold over the past decade. As John Lanchester noted recently, all but one of the world’s ten largest companies are connected to the ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...

The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...

The gallery of grotesques assembled by Trump – only the toga was missing in his rendering of the Roman Emperor Nero – at Sharm-el-Sheikh, the Egyptian resort synonymous with luxury and despotism, ...

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 ...

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 ...