The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

Elections in Poland.

In June 1991, when Manmohan Singh heard that he was about to be appointed finance minister of India, he thought it must be a joke. It was inconceivable that a sixty-year-old technocrat with no prior ...

Iranian cinema appears a rather curious success story. It is not just the size of Iran’s population or economy that raises questions; other middle-income countries have also produced high-quality ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Here the second foundational myth complements the first. In Zionist terminology, the recovery by the people of its home promised to deliver the normalization of Jewish existence; and the site ...

Above all, the failed attempt to impeach Bonaparte stands at the centre of Marx’s pioneering reflections on what we have come to call ‘populism’, the contradictory political form at the heart of ...

These are strange times. Capitalism, crippled by its own contradictions—there are thirty million people out of work in the oecd countries alone—is nonetheless triumphant. From New York to Beijing, via ...

1Georg Lukács, Ästhetik, Neuwied and Berlin 1963 (2 vols.). See, respectively, Vol. 11, pp. 759–66; Vol. 1, pp. 679–80; Vol. 11, pp. 185–8; and Vol. ii, pp ...

Liberal democracy, at its apparent moment of world historical triumph, is besieged. The ineffectiveness and timidity of economic policy in advanced capitalist states suggests a scission between the de ...