It was perhaps predictable that China’s initial sharp rebound from the global financial crisis would serve to entrench widespread perceptions that the prc represents an alternative and, on some ...

The Bengal Famine of 1943–44, a man-made catastrophe that in total caused the deaths of perhaps five million people, was described by the incoming British Viceroy Archibald Wavell as threatening ...

Though less well-known in the Anglophone world, the economist turned social philosopher Frédéric Lordon has emerged as one of the most effective public figures of the French intellectual left. On tv ...

During the severe economic crisis of 2008–09, it seemed to many that neoliberalism was finished.footnote 1 The major us banks were facing collapse and survived only through state bailouts. Economic ...

Donald Tusk’s Poland.

But it is relatively small compared to this parasitic outgrowth, which has become so colossal that, as I said, quantity has become quality, and the entire system has transformed. Most of the major ...

The Popular Front is best known in the non-Arab world for its hijackings in September 1970. A lot of criticisms of the hijackings have been made. Some of these are bourgeois criticisms. But there are ...

In his Inquiry Steuart had postulated a threefold process of development in history from pastoral nomadic, through agrarian to modern society characterized by the exchange economy. The change from one ...

Winner of the best director award at Cannes in 2000—not always a favourable distinction—Edward Yang has gained a wide international audience only with his latest film Yi Yi. Outside Taiwan itself, his ...