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

A response to Hillary Clinton.

This universalized dialectic – the primacy of process over its constituent moments – is a critical achievement of the first ...

Every time the global economy plunges into turmoil, talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony resurfaces. In March 1978 – in the wake of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and amid stagflation ...

Tiananmen Square, a Ming-era space in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, expanded fourfold over the course of the 1950s, as it was laid out with museums, halls and monuments for the new People’s ...

Ben Lerner once described Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) as a ‘bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed’. Something similar could be said of ...

One of the most important distinctions for understanding the dynamics of the current world and its historical emergence is that between capitalists and capitalism. Capitalists are economic actors ...

Suppose you are a philosopher, trying to decide which of your colleagues should be made redundant. It’s a bit like one of those thought experiments (beloved of philosophers) in which you have to ...

Adrian Wooldridge’s recent Centrists of the World Unite!: The Lost Genius of Liberalism does not just echo The Communist Manifesto in its language, it also mirrors its basic structure. Marx and Engels ...

‘I won’t be able to write from the grave’, the American poet Fanny Howe once wrote, ‘so let me tell you what I love’. The list that follows is brief: brown bread, salt, wine, a windy day, intimacy ...

Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism: Cambridge MA ...