It seems logical that no major players in the world economy would want to remain dependent on the currency of an erratic ...

India, of course, has generally been more corrupt than the US. Its Transparency International ranking in 2025 was 91. But the ...

At Raven Row.

The purpose of foreign policy is the protection of core national interests.’ So, which national interests are the ‘core’ ones ...

The Northern Irish poet worked in such a factory to support himself while undertaking a part-time literature degree, during ...

Elections in Peru.

Tiananmen Square, a Ming-era space in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, expanded fourfold over the course of the 1950s, as it was laid out with museums, halls and monuments for the new People’s ...

One of the most important distinctions for understanding the dynamics of the current world and its historical emergence is that between capitalists and capitalism. Capitalists are economic actors ...

Péter Magyar’s landslide victory in the Hungarian elections last month has been hailed in the Western media as a decisive rejection of ‘illiberal democracy’, with ramifications for ...

In May 1900, Marcel Proust and his mother travelled to Venice, following in Ruskin’s footsteps. In 1931—nine years after Proust’s death—a French consul in Venice came across a surprising entry in the ...

In the aftermath of the French municipal elections last month, only one left-wing party registered concern at a poor result: the embattled Écologistes, who forfeited six of the eight large cities they ...

The following interview was first published in Frankfurter Rundschau on 28 March. The Israeli-American war against Iran has thrown financial markets into turmoil and there is growing concern across ...