We are on this chessboard Earth, we attempt our moves, but at times it seems as if the great hand of a disinterested giant ...

Of course, there will be stupidities enough, and cliques of every kind too, but so long as it is possible to keep them within ...

The traditional right-wing emphasis on law and order has an additional valence in today’s Chile, signifying not only the ...

The political cycle which began with the 2018 election of Sheinbaum’s predecessor and political mentor, Andrés Manuel López ...

The idea of ‘grown-up politics’ is a recurring motif of these supposed moderates. In the second of her speeches, Hurwitz ...

When will they ever learn?’ the song’s lyrics asks, transforming what could have been a useful fiction about conspiracy and ...

For me, the single most beautiful room of the twentieth century is the underground hall of Mayakovskaya Metro Station in the centre of Moscow, which was designed in 1936 and opened in 1938. Named ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...

The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...

The slight and soft-eyed British actor Frank Dillane is in every scene of the London-set drama Urchin. That would put pressure on any performance, but it’s compounded by the approach taken by ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...