During his first term as president, Trump vowed to focus primarily on the American people. Are we now, by contrast, ...

Daniele Archibugi opens his eloquent case for a ‘ cosmopolitical democracy ’ with an important concession. The world’s major depositories of power, he observes, remain national states that have ‘only ...

In this context the idea of a political culture, that one could acquire or not, is inconceivable. For it implies the ...

The distance between us briefly collapses before we go our separate ways. Read on: JoAnn Wypijewski, ‘Home Alone’, NLR 93.

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

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

Making’ handed out at Pierrot also recommends: ‘Consider keeping standards as high as possible’. Today, so many residually ...

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 ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

So Corona walks through the front door as a familiar monster. Sequencing its genome (very similar to its well-studied sister sars) was simple enough, yet the most vital bits of information are still ...

Marco D'EramoAmerican Decline?