If the past is always that of a certain present, what are the conditions for avoiding the subordination of public history to ...

Grey Anderson on Edward Luce, Zbig. Biography of Brzezinski, updating the American strategist and Russia hawk for present ...

Nic Johnson on Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution. Neoliberalism as programme to head off the radical potential of the ...

Derogatory references to wiki-novels abound in contemporary literary criticism, as authors parade their characters’ ...

George kennan was an inescapable presence in post-war American foreign relations, intellectually as well as politically.

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For me, the single most beautiful room of the twentieth century is the underground hall of Mayakovskaya Metro Station in the centre of Moscow, which was designed in 1936 and opened in 1938. Named ...

At the beginning of the year, Norway looked set to elect the most right-wing government in its history. The right-populist Progress Party was surging in the polls while the centre-left government was ...

In January 2022, Richard Bruce Cheney made a surprise appearance on the floor of Congress. His return to Capitol Hill marked the anniversary of the ruckus that briefly delayed certification of ...

Various explanations have been offered for the weaker than expected Republican performance, in the context of a deeply unpopular President and high inflation. Among the leading hypotheses is the poor ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...