Palestine war that began in 1947 has still not ended. Its leaders – social democrats like Ben Gurion and Golda Meir in the ...

See too, inter alia, his renaming of the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his deployment of the national guard ...

On Thomas Pynchon.

It was Arendt who fused the Marxian and De Tocquevillian traditions in her account of modern totalitarianism (although there ...

They became emblems of an alien future, imminent and universal. These concrete monuments in remote Minnesota or on the ...

In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie moves in the opposite direction to Dickinson – towards lo-fi realism, the ...

Elections in Moldova.

The violence catalysed the biggest urban uprising in Kathmandu’s modern history. On 9 September, enraged crowds set the capital ablaze, torching government ministries, courts, the homes of leading ...

When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...

The ouster of West Bengal’s Communist government after 34 years in power is no less of a watershed for having been widely predicted. For more than a generation the Party had shaped the culture, ...

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 ...