Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

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

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 ...

On ‘late capitalism’.Late capitalism is an ambiguous term. Lateness may imply death or an ending, as when we speak of my late grandfather or the late afternoon. When the German social theorist Werner ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

Iwrote the play as a way to reflect upon Brazil’s political crisis, which seemed at first to favour the left, before turning sharply to the right. 1 The realist impulse in this case was not of the ...

Winnism’s empiricist bulwarks The success of The End of History propelled Fukuyama to the highest levels of American para-state intellectual life, with prestigious posts at apex scholarly institutions ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...