One has become familiar with the demented logic and the deadened language of prominent American nuclear strategists. This bookfootnote ＊ initiates us into a new branch of military mythology: ...

In the middle of the 19th century, no one could at the time have discerned any relationship between Marx and Darwin, when there appeared almost simultaneously, a few months apart, two works which were ...

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 ...

Landy on Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression. A critical theorist reformulates the concept of progress as social-reflexive problem-solving.

This golden age for Western governing elites nevertheless bred potential problems for their class rule. First, the very transformation of asset wealth on which the new elite floated threatened to ...

As Joan Robinson once observed, defining ‘capital’ is a painful subject for economists, who commonly ‘set up models in which quantities of “capital” appear, without any indication of what it is ...

To start with the us, where the shifts have been most drastic. The grand bargain of Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act aimed to combine green technological prowess with anti-China rivalry to produce ...

Earlier this summer, Mongolian protesters used old tyres to block the highway across the Gobi Desert from the vast Rio Tinto copper mine at Oyu Tolgoi, halting the stream of trucks that carry copper ...

A response to Hillary Clinton.

For the next fifty years, ‘Burma Proper’ was developed as an administrative adjunct to British India. Many hundreds of thousands of Indian immigrants, as well as Christianized Karens and Anglo-Burmans ...

Bukharin’s new work serves the long-felt need for a systematic Marxist summary of historical materialism. Nothing of this kind has been attempted within Marxism since Engels’ Anh-Dühring(except for ...