Trotsky’s interpretation of the historical meaning of Stalinism, to this day the most coherent and developed theorization of the phenomenon within the Marxist tradition, was constructed in the course ...

In 1922 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote to a friend that he was haunted by the possibility of an eventual flight to Russia. About two years later he sent the same friend some newspaper clippings of ...

We may never unravel the mysteries of this abject gesture. What matters now is what a second Trump term, with Rubio as ...

On Joseph Stiglitz.

Exponential curves such as these are wreaking havoc upon finite nature. Yet few on the radical left engage in a holistic ...

Why’, the young naif Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) asks in Blue Velvet, ‘is there so much trouble in this world?’ Three decades ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Although a long time coming, Trudeau’s fall has been dramatic. He was elected in 2015 promising ‘real change’ and ‘sunny ways ...

Among the stories Claessens loved to tell was one about the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder who, according to Flemish ...

The relationship of women to cities has long preoccupied reformers and philanthropists.footnote 1 In recent years the preoccupation has been inverted: the Victorian determination to control ...

Nearly half a century after its original publication in Germany, Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness footnote 1 has at last become available in English. Those who now read the book for the ...