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 ...
It’s a poetics of dislocation, estrangement, playing along. We have to put all our trust in the poem, both reader and writer ...
Gradually, what was unsayable becomes sayable and then received wisdom, without acknowledgement of the shift, and hence ...
The ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate.footnote 1 Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from ...
Speculation about the character of Ukania’s incoming Labour government tends to be projective. For the self-described Marxist Paul Mason, Keir Starmer’s outlook is ‘socialist and internationalist’, ...
There was also, of course, his fine contempt for the democrats of those years, who had received power for free, without a struggle, as if they had just found it in the street. So most of the ideas ...
Now, Agamben is both wrong and right; or rather, drastically wrong and somewhat right. He is wrong because the basic facts contradict him. Even great thinkers can die of contagion—Hegel perished from ...
Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so.footnote 1 The ...