an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...
On the contrary, he has indicated that because the central bank’s quantitative easing policies mean that it is in effect ...
Rather than a lesson in how to beat the right, this seems likely to prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the centre. Read on: ...
'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...
The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...
Robert Brenner’s article in nlr 104 concerns a number of issues that have been the subject of debate within Marxism.footnote 1 Its focus is the explanation of the origins of capitalism, and related ...
The events of the past weeks in Palestine have been a near-total triumph for Zionism in the United States. Political and public discourse has so definitively transformed Israel into the victim during ...
when i settle down to write to you, I feel somehow “freer” than usual. The reason, I suppose, is that most of the time I am writing for people whose ambiguities and values I imagine to be rather ...
For the next fifty years, ‘Burma Proper’ was developed as an administrative adjunct to British India. Many hundreds of thousands of Indian immigrants, as well as Christianized Karens and Anglo-Burmans ...
Before I first went to university I had a belief, which I still have, and which is probably shared by the great majority of you.footnote * I mean the belief that the way to decide whether a given ...