Hyperculture, by Byung Chul-Han
Korean-German philosopher Byung Chul-Han is the quintessential postmodern figure. Having to come to Germany to study metallurgy, he switched fields and mastered the argot of German philosophy.(...)
Labour and the Forde Report
The Forde Report represents a new stage of the malaise afflicting the Labour Party.(...)
Geographies of Digital Exclusion, by Mark Graham and Martin Dittus
In all but the most prosaic discussions of cartography today, it’s obligatory to mention “On Exactitude in Science.”(...)
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton
Boris Johnson has been a dead man walking for months. His resignation has been more of a relief than a shock.(...)
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes, by Tariq Ali
Since his student days in the Oxford Union in the 1960s, Tariq Ali has been a blunt teller of truths, not unduly concerned with the feelings of those who think otherwise.(...)
Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama has a fraught relationship with history. In the late 1980s, he thought it was over.(...)
A World After Liberalism, by Matthew Rose
In the aptly titled A World After Liberalism, Matthew Rose presents a series of close readings of reactionary thinkers who helped shape today’s far-right.(...)
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George Mosse on Fascism
One of the great ironies of today's politics is that when it comes to fascism, it’s often difficult to know what one is talking about.(...)
Lavrov’s Nuclear Threat
After two months of war, the Kremlin is finally owning up to the crisis it’s caused.(...)
Russia and the Ukraine War
Baron Ismay, who served as Secretary-General of NATO from 1952 to 1957, famously described its purpose as keeping “the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down”.(...)