Could American technofeudalism therefore turn out to be a fragile Leviathan? Will Trump’s return to power be remembered as a ...

What is the status of scientific truth-claims? Can they purport to hold good for all time across vastly differing contexts of language, culture, and society? That is to say: is science in the business ...

Three things have won conventional wars in this century; greater reserves of manpower, greater industrial potential and a reasonably functioning system of civilian administration. The strategy of the ...

If only the lords of Silicon Valley had read their Aftalion, who had compared the rhythm of investment to people stacking ...

The only uncertainty was the identity of the runner-up, with a number of candidates vying for position: Nicolae Ciucă of the ...

On Joseph Stiglitz.

Why’, the young naif Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) asks in Blue Velvet, ‘is there so much trouble in this world?’ Three decades ...

In one of his notebooks, Chekhov recorded the following anecdote: ‘A man in Monte Carlo goes to the casino, wins a million, returns home, commits suicide.’ The classic form of the short story is ...

We may never unravel the mysteries of this abject gesture. What matters now is what a second Trump term, with Rubio as Secretary of State, is going to look like. Across the Straits from Rubio’s home ...

'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 ...

Up till the 1970s, the notion that the Rest would follow in the footsteps of the West was intrinsic to the dominant development paradigm. Through industrialization and urbanization, the ...