Having never previously aligned themselves with either the left or right bloc, the Greens successfully pivoted to the left in this election, making headway on the issues of oil and Palestine. The ...

an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

For me, the single most beautiful room of the twentieth century is the underground hall of Mayakovskaya Metro Station in the centre of Moscow, which was designed in 1936 and opened in 1938. Named ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

For much of the twentieth century it was a truism that political behaviour was motivated by material interests. Then, from about the 1970s, this idea began to be displaced by an understanding of ...

Trump is set on bringing the Federal Reserve to heel. Over the summer he succeeded in installing one of his key economic advisers, Stephen Miran, on its Board of Governors, attempted to remove another ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Radical changes in taste and historical estimation are common in architecture. Nearly every style and era has been reviled at one time or another: the architects of the Italian Renaissance loathed the ...

The history of Italian socialism has been closely intertwined with the material universe of the printed word. After the crushing of the Paris Commune, the first proponents of Marx’s thought were often ...

Robert Brenner’s article in nlr 104 concerns a number of issues that have been the subject of debate within Marxism.footnote 1 Its focus is the explanation of the origins of capitalism, and related ...

The author of this by turns absorbing and tantalizing set of essays confesses that she came to write her book as a ‘complete outsider to psychoanalysis’. Her approach is more that of a historian of ...