An extract from Mark Greif's Against Everything: On Dishonest Times, a thought-provoking study and collection of essays that provide an essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first century capitalism.
In the second part of a two part interview, Adam Tooze discusses the Brexit vote, Emmanuel Macron's reform agenda, the prospects for a radical Labour government, and why it is that Marxists keep claiming Adam (a self-described liberal) for one of their own, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast
Mike Davis reflects on the political lessons of the 1970s and 1980s and poses questions still relevant for the left today.
Asad Haider traces the trajectory of “identity politics” and challenges our understanding of the politics of race in this excerpt from Mistaken Identity.
Ilya Afanasyev, Nicholas Evans and Nicholas Matheou on the possibility of another kind of academic conference.
Suite (212) podcast presented by Juliet Jacques and Tom Overton returns. In this episode, Juliet interviews Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi about chronicling the Occupation and Israeli politics more generally, and his experiments with the documentary form
In 2003, John Bolton stated that the United States would not subject its actions to the constraints of the ICC. More than a decade later, the US still opposes any ICC sanctions against itself or its allies. In this chapter from The WikiLeaks Files, Linda Pearson explains how "elite immunity" ensures that many of those responsible for human rights abuses remain unreachable under international law.
Feminism is not an import from the West explains Kumari Jayawardena in this excerpt from Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World.
"As a revolution, 1968 failed [....]. Nevertheless, 1968 changed almost everything in both culture and politics."
Linda Roland Danil explores Freud's ambiguous position on women's emancipation in light of the #metoo movement.
Max L. Feldman on Jacob Rees-Mogg's nostalgic view of British history and the pitfalls of creating a national military myth.
Karl Polanyi is being hailed as the intellectual inspiration behind Labour's new economic strategy. But, as Gareth Dale notes, his work, though rich, lacks a thorough conception of political power.