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.

Eric Blair began by taking the name of England’s patron saint and ended up assuming his role. 1984, when it finally arrived, was the year of St George. This way of putting it risks understating the ...

Among the many protests staged by Latin Americans to demonstrate their opposition to us policies during Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s 1969 visit was the destruction of the General Motors offices in ...

Hard on the heels of Lukács’s two books, The Historical Novel (1962) and The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1963), comes Ernst Fischer’s The Necessity of Art: a Marxist Approach. Divided between two ...

These genres of pushing beyond, and others like them, applied by one European thinker to another, have been repeated numerous times over the subsequent two centuries of post-Kantian thought.

Hermeneutics first. Nick Adams, the protagonist of Hemingway’s short story ‘Big Two-Hearted River’ (1925), is about to go fishing: Nick took it from his hook book, sitting with the rod across his lap.

This article began as a review of A Severed Head, and got mixed up with my re-reading of a short essay that Irish Murdoch wrote just over a year ago for Encounter, called Against Dryness. I have ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized in ...

Two events have transformed the background of post-war anthropology: the colonial revolution leading to the rise of struggles against imperialism, now on the defensive, and, at a different level, the ...

Can socialists, radical environmentalists and feminists from other traditions safely dismiss ecofeminism? In this paper I offer both a critique of ecofeminism and a modified defence. On the one hand, ...