The purpose of foreign policy is the protection of core national interests.’ So, which national interests are the ‘core’ ones ...

The Northern Irish poet worked in such a factory to support himself while undertaking a part-time literature degree, during ...

Elections in Peru.

Tiananmen Square, a Ming-era space in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, expanded fourfold over the course of the 1950s, as it was laid out with museums, halls and monuments for the new People’s ...

One of the most important distinctions for understanding the dynamics of the current world and its historical emergence is that between capitalists and capitalism. Capitalists are economic actors ...

Péter Magyar’s landslide victory in the Hungarian elections last month has been hailed in the Western media as a decisive rejection of ‘illiberal democracy’, with ramifications for ...

In May 1900, Marcel Proust and his mother travelled to Venice, following in Ruskin’s footsteps. In 1931—nine years after Proust’s death—a French consul in Venice came across a surprising entry in the ...

In the aftermath of the French municipal elections last month, only one left-wing party registered concern at a poor result: the embattled Écologistes, who forfeited six of the eight large cities they ...

The following interview was first published in Frankfurter Rundschau on 28 March. The Israeli-American war against Iran has thrown financial markets into turmoil and there is growing concern across ...

‘It’s a good sign when a movie sends us out wanting to know more, and feeling that there is more to know.’ That was Pauline Kael, writing on Frederick Wiseman’s High School in 1969. Her rave review in ...

In recent days there have been reports that Washington, and perhaps also Tel Aviv, is seeking an off-ramp from the current war with Iran. What options might such an exit involve? And how realistic do ...

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region ...