The existence of Rojava as a semi-autonomous space, with global symbolic resonance – for women’s liberation, unprecedented in the region, and for the democratic self-rule of an oppressed people – ...

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, ...

‘I hate reviewing books’, the young Zbigniew Brzezinski informed a journal editor in 1960, explaining that he found it ‘debilitating intellectually, demoralizing personally and destructive ...

In Mary Gaitskill’s 1997 short story ‘Orchid’, two characters approaching middle age encounter each other on the street in Seattle. Margot is a social worker, Patrick a former actor turned ...

One of the founding documents of Western philosophy deals with the phenomenon of being exempt from punishment. In Plato’s Republic, Glaukon challenges Sokrates by telling a story: there was a shepherd ...

Among the myths of Greek antiquity is the story of the demigod Aristaeus. Known as the ‘pastoral’ Apollo, he was celebrated for initiating a ritual often referred to as bugonia. Noticing that his bees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...