The atmosphere on the left was already poisonous before the vote. The Socialists had emerged severely weakened from the 2022 ...

Bulgarian sociologist Jivko Georgiev has sharply diagnosed the impasse: ‘We live in a present so impotent that it lacks the ...

Near the end of 1975, reports began to appear in the Diário de Pernambuco of a ghostly, disembodied and entirely sentient ‘hairy leg’. It was first spotted in the neighbourhood of Tiúma, on a street ...

In recent days there have been reports that Washington, and perhaps also Tel Aviv, is seeking an off-ramp from the current war with Iran. What options might such an exit involve? And how realistic do ...

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region ...

Whatever the outcome of the war of aggression which Israel and the United States are at present waging against Iran, a question remains: what is to be done about the Palestinians? This question has ...

Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, lies and reflexes in which the war is enmeshed. I have never lived through a ...

A surprising transformation has swept the political culture of the rich world over the past decade and a half. In the fallout from the financial crisis, the rise of the Tea Party, the Indignados, the ...

The recent wave of protests in Iran have generated an extraordinary volume of commentary, much of it framed through familiar but misleading scripts. Some cast the unrest as an imminent revolutionary ...

The stock market valuation of AI-related firms has increased tenfold over the past decade. As John Lanchester noted recently, all but one of the world’s ten largest companies are connected to the ...

One of the founding documents of Western philosophy deals with the phenomenon of being exempt from punishment. In Plato’s Republic, Glaukon challenges Sokrates by telling a story: there was a shepherd ...

‘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 ...