Of course, there will be stupidities enough, and cliques of every kind too, but so long as it is possible to keep them within ...

The traditional right-wing emphasis on law and order has an additional valence in today’s Chile, signifying not only the ...

Claudia Sheinbaum took the helm a year ago riding a high wave. With 60 per cent of the vote and a supermajority for her party MORENA in both chambers, the Mexican President entered office in October ...

Among the myths of Greek antiquity is the story of the demigod Aristaeus. Known as the ‘pastoral’ Apollo, he was celebrated for initiating a ritual often referred to as bugonia. Noticing that his bees ...

‘I’m sorry if this is a graphic thing to say, but when I’m trying to make arguments in favour of, you know, for Israel, I realise I’m talking through a wall of dead children.’ These are not the words ...

Althusser was in general unforthcoming on biographical matters—personal questions about his history encountering a wary, although not blank response. The two main experiences of his youth were ...

Hearing of Weber’s death in 1920, many in the German academic community might have thought the news referred to Alfred Weber, Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. While his elder ...

Raymond Williams and I arrived in Cambridge simultaneously in 1961, he from a long stint in adult education to a college Fellowship, I from a year’s teaching in a Northern secondary modern school to ...

Iris Young and I seem to inhabit different worlds.footnote 1 In her world, there are no divisions between the social Left and the cultural Left. Proponents of cultural politics work cooperatively with ...

Hermeneutics first. Nick Adams, the protagonist of Hemingway’s short story ‘Big Two-Hearted River’ (1925), is about to go fishing: Nick took it from his hook book, sitting with the rod across his lap.

Amid the recent outpouring of books and articles rehabilitating the purposes and practices of empire, two works have stood out for their unflinching scrutiny of British colonialism in Kenya. David ...