But part of the role of radical agitation, of political speculation and of utopian art and culture is to gesture towards the ...

The events in Gaza have transformed, perhaps permanently, not just attitudes toward the current government in Israel and ...

A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...

Gabriele Pedullà on Tom Geue, Major Corrections. Intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro, who brought the tools of ...

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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 ...

It has become a truism among Anglophone commentators that the world is in the grip of ‘geoeconomics’, the pursuit of geopolitical ends by economic means. In September 2024, Mario Draghi’s report on ...

‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...

The author of this by turns absorbing and tantalizing set of essays confesses that she came to write her book as a ‘complete outsider to psychoanalysis’. Her approach is more that of a historian of ...

Before I first went to university I had a belief, which I still have, and which is probably shared by the great majority of you.footnote ＊ I mean the belief that the way to decide whether a given ...

when i settle down to write to you, I feel somehow “freer” than usual. The reason, I suppose, is that most of the time I am writing for people whose ambiguities and values I imagine to be rather ...