On Bob Dylan.

Serbia’s unrest.

Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

Throughout the 2010s, Larry Summers repeatedly insisted that the laws of technological progress had defanged the problem of overinvestment. As his putative inspiration, he cited Hansen’s idea that ...

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 Romanian presidential election on 24 November 2024 was supposed to be a predictable affair. Marcel Ciolacu, the incumbent prime minister and leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), was ...

14 April 2015: Obama announces the removal of Cuba from the ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’ list, on which it had languished since the Reagan era. 12 January 2021: the outgoing Trump Administration ...

In 1934 when Gaston Bachelard published his Nouvel Esprit Scientifiquefootnote 1 and Karl Popper’s Logik der Forschungfootnote 2 appeared few philosophers would have dissented from the view that ...

Anything that was shown—American, Japanese, Hong Kong: whatever. By my teens there was a terrific range of films you could see in Taipei, because the Nationalist government set up a number of ...