The atmosphere on the left was already poisonous before the vote. The Socialists had emerged severely weakened from the 2022 ...

Everything else lies, as Clausewitz said, in the fog of the expanding battlefield. Read on: Susan Watkins, ‘Trump Abroad’, ...

Bulgarian sociologist Jivko Georgiev has sharply diagnosed the impasse: ‘We live in a present so impotent that it lacks the ...

The names of Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg have often been linked, sometimes with good reason and sometimes also without. It has been said, wrongly, that they shared before 1917 a common view of ...

Jack Spicer’s reputation rests on a clutch of perfect books he left behind after dying of alcoholism in 1965. These include the luminous ‘untranslations’ of After Lorca (1957), the unclassifiable ...

'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 ...

Agarden gnome is no longer a garden gnome. This is the dilemma facing contemporary art, that is circumscribed by the unhappy concept of post-modernity.footnote ＊ Up until a certain moment (let us take ...

The russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, launched by the Kremlin after months of rising tensions, quickly generated a flood of casualties and several million refugees, as well as bringing ...

The subject of our session this evening has been a focus of intellectual debate and political passion for at least six or seven decades now.footnote ＊ It already has a long history, in other words. It ...