A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...

‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

To illustrate the stakes of market-reform debates in China in the 1980s, Isabella Weber begins her book with some dramatic graphs. The first (below) compares Russian and Chinese shares of world gdp ...

My interest in the subject of biennials and their participants’ national affiliations dates back to the Taipei Biennial of 2004, the fourth such event in our city, and my reaction to a curatorial ...

Many Soviet politicians have attracted the attention of the world’s press over the last ten years but very little has been said or written about Mikhail Suslov. He kept himself to the shadows, ...

Edward Said was a longstanding friend and comrade. We first met in 1972, at a seminar in New York. Even in those turbulent times, one of the features that distinguished him from the rest of us was his ...

The main searchlight of Clivages is trained on the social differentiation, by income and by education, of political sympathies and voting behaviour. This is what its conceptualization of a political ...

The number of people who have signed up for Britain’s new left-wing party has surpassed 650,000: a figure that dwarfs the membership of every other outfit in Westminster. Preparations are underway for ...

In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (1930), set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the army general Stumm von Bordwehr asks, ‘How can those directly involved in what’s happening know ...

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 of late Tsarist Russia, ...