Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

Thus, at the moment when the revolution began, the three young women were already outside the conventions of bourgeois ...

Nigeria already struggles with inadequate healthcare funding. This year’s budget allocates only 5.18 per cent of ...

I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen ...

But wait, actually, no. The mother’s contribution is independent of the child’s sex. The child’s sex is determined by the ...

Two recent books, by Peter Beinart and Rachel Shabi, discuss the response of Jewish communities in the West to the Hamas attacks of 7 October and Israel’s subsequent destruction of Palestinian life in ...

On the horizon is a legally unfettered behemoth capable of coercing organisations, negating rights, suppressing ...

William Davies joins Tom to assess the efforts of the UK’s new Labour government in tackling the country’s many economic challenges.

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

It would be a mistake to see the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his political views in relation to Palestine as ...

For their final conversation Among the Ancients, Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones turn to the contradictions of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius. Said by Machiavelli to be the last ...