If the past is always that of a certain present, what are the conditions for avoiding the subordination of public history to ...

Grey Anderson on Edward Luce, Zbig. Biography of Brzezinski, updating the American strategist and Russia hawk for present ...

Nic Johnson on Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution. Neoliberalism as programme to head off the radical potential of the ...

Derogatory references to wiki-novels abound in contemporary literary criticism, as authors parade their characters’ ...

George kennan was an inescapable presence in post-war American foreign relations, intellectually as well as politically.

María Haro Sly on Carlos Pagni, El Nudo. The Buenos Aires periphery as a political subject, from the early workers’ movement ...

New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.

Let us begin these reflections on contemporary French philosophy with a paradox: that which is the most universal is also, at the same time, the most particular. Hegel calls this the ‘concrete ...

French philosophy in the twentieth century was marked above all by two projects.footnote 1 For the sake of simplicity we might distinguish them with the labels of ‘subject’ and ‘science’. On the one ...

Anything that was shown—American, Japanese, Hong Kong: whatever. By my teens there was a terrific range of films you could see in Taipei, because the Nationalist government set up a number of ...

The first months of Cristina Fernández’s tenure as Argentinian president have shattered previous expectations of a smooth conjugal succession from her husband, Néstor Kirchner. After her landslide ...

Doe t’express his loue and friending to you, God willing, shall not lacke: Let us goe in together, And still your fingers on your lippes, I pray. The time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight, That ever ...