Despite making some progress on green initiatives, Lula still seems determined to use fossil resources to drive development, ...

Walter Benjamin is related to this pattern not only by his personal links with most of the members of this complex network, but also because he concentrates in his life and thought all the ...

Yet his adoptive family is so warm and loving that the lack, the ‘chasm’, torments him only intermittently. It’s surely ...

On Oleksiy Radynski.

The Federal Reserve’s dilemma.

He challenged French economic interests by making Libya a hub for raw material trade independent of major Western companies – ...

The geography of the current anti-globalization protests signals a new world-political landscape for the Left. In a sense, this is a reversal of that historic shift of which Isaac Deutscher spoke—the ...

Michel Barnier and Macronism.

Once the cultural and political beacon of the Arab world, Cairo is now close to becoming the region’s social sump. The population of this megalopolis has swollen to an estimated 17 million, more than ...

Gregory Elliott’s book appears at a time when the reputation of its subject seems near to total eclipse.footnote 1 In Althusser’s own country he is, as Elliott reports, practically a ‘dead dog’, ...

'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 ...

Up till the 1970s, the notion that the Rest would follow in the footsteps of the West was intrinsic to the dominant development paradigm. Through industrialization and urbanization, the ...