New Left Review 158 out now
In the latest New Left Review: Nancy Fraser reflects on the global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
In the Latest Issue
After the first round of the US–Israeli assault on Iran, Alexander Zevin analyses the uneasy balance between Tehran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz and the enormous firepower of the aggressors. Nancy Fraser reflects on the global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza and the rise of a new-era McCarthyism in Germany and the US.
Also in NLR 158:
What is alive and what dead in neoliberalism? Nathan Sperber undertakes a multi-dimensional analysis—ideological, political, social, economic—of its uneven condition. In discussion with Tom Stevenson, leading historian Richard Overy reflects on his work on the Second World War as a terminal clash between imperial-colonial systems. Loïc Wacquant mounts a sociological critique of radical calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons. Marcus Verhagen looks at contrasting modes of artistic response to London’s Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Plus book reviews: Sebastian Veg considers three studies of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests and Thomas Meaney assesses an account of the end of the Cold War as the upshot of a contest to enforce capital’s discipline, East and West.