At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the whole of Eastern Europe was divided between three empires. Previous little statelets, survivors of medieval fragmentation, were absorbed into the three large ...

Having previously argued for the general superiority of Marxist class analysis over its main sociological rivals—especially Weberian approaches and those adopted within mainstream stratification ...

The ‘short’ twentieth century is often held to have begun with the First World War, and ended with the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. But there is another way of looking at the last hundred years ...

António Lobo Antunes (1942-2026).

It is difficult to see criticism as anything but an innocent discipline. Its origins seem spontaneous, its existence natural: there is literature, and so—because we wish to understand and appreciate ...

It’s a good sign when a movie sends us out wanting to know more, and feeling that there is more to know.’ That was Pauline Kael, writing on Frederick Wiseman’s High School in 1969. Her rave review in ...

Operation Epic Fury was launched on 28 February amid a blizzard of contradictory aims and justifications, after warnings from the Pentagon that the US was not materially ready for war with Iran (so it ...

The ruling authorities in Burma (Myanmar since 1989) have long promoted a rigid, racialized conception of ethnicity and sought to cultivate a permanent sense of danger threatening to engulf the ...

The dissatisfaction with politics-as-usual stems from a long-brewing desire to break with Japan’s ‘lost decades’: the period of prolonged stagnation since the bursting of the asset bubble at the turn ...

It was in Paris and Manchester respectively that Marx and Engels underwent the decisive experiences that led them to break with Left Hegelian philosophy and radical-liberal politics.footnote 1 The ...