The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

Freedom within necessity? If freedom can be curtailed by the basic fact of ongoing contingency—by the fact that human beings are mortal, have unceasing material needs, and live in a finite world—then ...

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

Elections in Poland.Having been lauded by liberal commentators as the saviour of Europe, Poland has now returned to its previous role as the continent’s reprobate. Presidential elections on 18 May ...

Assessing Trump 2.0.The US political world can today be divided not only between left and right, but along another axis: Trump maximalists and Trump minimalists. Maximalists are inclined to view Trump ...

Tradition and adaptation.How to relate to the Leninist tradition? How to extract its truth? The basis of Lenin’s success was the perfect adaptation of his political strategy to the historical terrain ...

The EU and Ukraine.With negotiations for a peace agreement in Ukraine now underway, and Washington signalling a possible détente with the Kremlin, European states are doing everything they can to ...

On Trump II.When Donald Trump invoked ‘manifest destiny’ in his inaugural address, it was in its oldest meaning as territorial expansion: the predestined, God-given American right to claim and acquire ...

Capital’s fairytales.Throughout the 2010s, Larry Summers repeatedly insisted that the laws of technological progress had defanged the problem of overinvestment. As his putative inspiration, he cited ...