an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

Rather than a lesson in how to beat the right, this seems likely to prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the centre. Read on: ...

On the contrary, he has indicated that because the central bank’s quantitative easing policies mean that it is in effect ...

'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 ...

But part of the role of radical agitation, of political speculation and of utopian art and culture is to gesture towards the ...

When the multi-hyphenate scholar of science Bruno Latour died last October at the age of 75, tributes poured in from all corners of academia and many beyond. In the aughts, Latour had been a ...

After eighteen years, Die Linke is no longer a presence in the German Bundestag. When Sahra Wagenknecht and nine other MPs quit the party last October, the remaining deputies lost their status as a ...

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 ...

A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman does not mince his words: the signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something ...

The Mexican political system was shaken on 1 July 2018, when Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his new party MORENA achieved a resounding electoral victory, winning 53% of the votes in a four-way ...