New Left Review 152, out now
With Friedrich Merz poised to become Germany’s next Chancellor, Wolfgang Streeck offers unsparing analysis of key paradoxes in German politics.
In the Latest Issue:
Wolfgang Streeck offers insights following a Bundestag election highly polarized around immigration which has placed another centrist coalition in power. The hardline Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is now propelling a high-spending fiscal revolution.
Nick Burns questions NYT columnist Ross Douthat on Trump, American liberalism and his own ideological formation.
Wang Xiaoming surveys Chinese intellectual history, finding lessons on the tension between civilization and barbarity in imperial states.
Lola Seaton replies to Malcolm Bull, analysing what it means to recognize, value and own conceptual artworks.
Loïc Wacquant explores the logic of punishment from the colony to the banlieue.
David Harvey reflects upon the influence of Piero Sraffa on intellectuals from Gramsci, Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson to Harvey himself.
Plus book reviews: Ed McNally on Hugh Wilford’s imperial history of the CIA, and Jiwei Xiao on Margaret Hillenbrand’s analysis of precarity in Chinese art.