The Western world’s imagination of historical time seems at present to be pulled between auguries of irreversibility and narratives of stubborn repetition—focusing now on impending ecological collapse ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

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

Experiments with history . See the beauty of distant reading plus world literature: they go against the grain of national historiography. And they do so in the form of an experiment.You define a unit ...

The US political world can today be divided not only between left and right, but along another axis: Trump maximalists and Trump minimalists. Maximalists are inclined to view Trump as an agent or ...

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Palestine Action is among the UK’s most militant and effective activist networks – coordinating the sabotage of arms factories which supply the Israeli state. You co-founded the group in July 2020, ...

It is hard to define his mood exactly, but Karl Marx was certainly elated around the time of his twenty-sixth birthday in May 1844. He was living in Paris, newly married; his daughter, Jenny, was just ...

In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (1930), set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the army general Stumm von Bordwehr asks, ‘How can those directly involved in what’s happening know ...

The revival of Keynesian ‘supply-side economics’ and a proactive industrial policy under the Biden administration appeared to mark a significant shift. Neoliberals had long insisted that governments ...

The first film David Lynch ever saw, when he was six years old, was a 1952 melodrama by the director Henry King called Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie.Shot in bright orange candlelight and deep ...