The narrative of Pax Aegyptiaca, seven millennia of civilization culminating with his ‘New Republic’, is part of the ...

During his first term as president, Trump vowed to focus primarily on the American people. Are we now, by contrast, ...

Christopher Lasch, cultural historian and scourge of the politically correct, died last year and so his final book is published posthumously.footnote 1 Like his earlier works, its range of subject ...

Friedrich Engels famously spent his working life in the shadow of Karl Marx, a position he now occupies for posterity, and one in which he willingly placed himself.footnote 1 Born in 1820 in the ...

In this paper, I want to tackle some of the underlying issues around ‘post-Marxism’ in contemporary social theory, using just one exemplar of this emerging framework, namely Michèle Barrett’s book The ...

The only rational solution to this military situation was some kind of political deal between what would later be called the two superpowers. The deal struck is referred to by the symbolic name of ...

Above all, the failed attempt to impeach Bonaparte stands at the centre of Marx’s pioneering reflections on what we have come to call ‘populism’, the contradictory political form at the heart of ...

Daniele Archibugi opens his eloquent case for a ‘ cosmopolitical democracy ’ with an important concession. The world’s major depositories of power, he observes, remain national states that have ‘only ...

The relationship between socialism and democracy has been a complex and a contested one. To large numbers of socialists it was axiomatic that their project, both the goal of socialism and the movement ...

The City in History, Lewis Mumford; Seeker & Warburg, 70s. Cities begin as accidents of geography, and end as the accretion in brick and stone of an entire civilisation. Faith petrifies in a spire, ...

Alexandre Kojève was born in Russia into a well-to-do family; he was the nephew of the painter Kandinsky.footnote 1 In 1920, at the age of eighteen, he left Moscow in order to study in Germany, first ...