The list that follows is brief: brown bread, salt, wine, a windy day, intimacy with friends and family. Art’s great promise ...

Magyar made the issue of ‘democracy’ a material one through his focus on the neglect of the health and education systems, ...

The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to ...

Israeli assault on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Tehran’s tourniquet on the Strait of Hormuz—and the world economy ...

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Contemporary capitalism rests on the pairing of internationalized productive capital and global financial capital, a configuration that differs sharply from the finance capital analysed by Hilferding ...

The story follows three friends, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth, who inhabit a peculiar social order. When we first meet them, they are children living at what appears to be a privileged English boarding ...

In a July 2015 interview, the former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis gave an insight into his exchanges with the representatives of Greece’s creditors at eu Finance Ministers’ meetings. What ...

The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a number of isolable units, but half a totality: the human species. Women are essential and ...

This approach has the further, not insignificant advantage of making it possible to introduce a temporal dimension into the discussion. For populism has not always been deployed as it is today, and ...

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Turning to fiction, On the Edge examines the representation of China’s migrant workers in different literary genres. Hillenbrand analyses a seemingly marginal state-endorsed magazine, the bi-monthly ...