The list that follows is brief: brown bread, salt, wine, a windy day, intimacy with friends and family. Art’s great promise ...

Magyar made the issue of ‘democracy’ a material one through his focus on the neglect of the health and education systems, ...

New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.

Contemporary capitalism rests on the pairing of internationalized productive capital and global financial capital, a configuration that differs sharply from the finance capital analysed by Hilferding ...

In a July 2015 interview, the former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis gave an insight into his exchanges with the representatives of Greece’s creditors at eu Finance Ministers’ meetings. What ...

The story follows three friends, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, who inhabit a peculiar social order. When we first meet them, they are children living at what appears to be a privileged English boarding ...

The Project on the City assembles research from an ongoing graduate seminar directed by Rem Koolhaas at the Harvard School of Design; its first two volumes—the Great Leap Forward, an exploration of ...

'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 ...

The ‘crisis of care’ is currently a major topic of public debate.footnote 1 Often linked to ideas of ‘time poverty’, ‘family-work balance’, and ‘social depletion’, it refers to the pressures from ...

In recent days there have been reports that Washington, and perhaps also Tel Aviv, is seeking an off-ramp from the current war with Iran. What options might such an exit involve? And how realistic do ...

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region ...

A surprising transformation has swept the political culture of the rich world over the past decade and a half. In the fallout from the financial crisis, the rise of the Tea Party, the Indignados, the ...