Despite the apparent success of the centre-left opposition she helms, Sunday’s vote was really a victory for the right. In ...

Those who didn’t read the small present hit the reset wall without warning after two years, unable to understand why their interest payments had suddenly quadrupled or quintupled –leaving them, ...

A new biography of Victor Serge.

What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of crises that have sprung up more or ...

Despite regular accounts in the pages of the New York Times and elsewhere of Ukrainian strides in AI-powered warfare, so far, no line of code has changed the fact that today’s wars are still fought by ...

The AI investment boom – whether or not it is, as I tend to believe, a bubble – is a vivid demonstration of how misleading it is to characterize capitalism as a ‘market economy’. The system’s ...

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...

Hardliners on both sides in the Ukraine war are pursuing a chimaera in the hope of a miracle. Moscow appears to believe that in the near future, the Ukrainian defences that have held the Russian ...

In March 1934, a young Communist militant rode on horseback into the tiny settlement of Estación Camarón in Nuevo León, in the far northeast of Mexico. He had been sent by the party to support a ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech at NATO’s Defence Industry Forum in Ankara earlier this month was a hymn to drone warfare. Drones, the Ukrainian president proclaimed, had heralded ‘revolutionary changes ...

John Berger had one of the longest and richest lives among British writers, but he never quite made it to 100. In his absence, the centenary of his birth this year sees a flurry of publications and ...