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

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

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

Before discussing the new agricultural policy, there must be a brief account of politico-economic policy and development since 1954, since very little serious analytical material has appeared in 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 ...

Anything that was shown—American, Japanese, Hong Kong: whatever. By my teens there was a terrific range of films you could see in Taipei, because the Nationalist government set up a number 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 ...

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 ...

Eric Hobsbawm’s latest book is unlikely to have the general appeal of The Age of Revolution. There are few generalizations; elaborate synthesis is not its purpose. Common themes remain implicit rather ...