Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ...

In the wreckage of the neoliberal order they once championed, there are a number of paths available to Europe’s ...

Kojève was short of money, and a friend wangled him a temporary job as an interpreter at the Directorate of Foreign Economic ...

But Ravn makes it clear from the start that no argument is equal to our sheer emotional susceptibility to made things: we are ...

Her unglamorous look – the double-knit suits, undyed greying hair and big handbag – somehow made her seem ‘more radical and genuinely young’ than anyone on campus. But she was not young. Each pivot ...

Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended ...

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art ...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped began life serialised in a children’s magazine, but its sophistication and depth won the lifelong admiration of Henry James. In Stevenson’s hands, a straightforward ...

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the ...

Too much studying is harmful,’ Mao insisted, noting that few top scorers in the keju had gone on to accomplish great things. Two years later, the education system collapsed in the Cultural Revolution.

One of the difficulties in thinking about extinction, as Lorraine Daston argued in her recent review of Vanished by Sadiah Qureshi, is ‘the challenge of scale: the mismatch between our decades and ...

Chimpanzees, New Caledonian crows – and now cows. The list of animals that use tools grew a little longer this ...