Big Racket Man: Donald Trump and the Frankfurt’s school’s ‘racket society’
An unfinished analysis by Horkheimer gives us a way of understanding the Trump presidency as ‘gangsterish conduct’.
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New Left Review 143, out now
Making—and breaking—the Law of Nations. Theorizing China’s path. Twenty-first-century socialist feminism. Contradictions of US climate policy. The costs of debt over the longue durée. New books on the crises of democratic capitalism and the stakes of German idealist philosophy. -
Whither Israel?
An extract from Amnon Kapeliouk's Not By Omission. -
Essential Books for UK Black History Month
Our key reading.
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For the last time: Rejecting the conversation ‘between the sword and the neck’
Western media's double standard for Israel and Palestine demands that Palestinians and their allies surrender to the logic of Israeli occupation. Shadi Chalesh writes of the importance of resisting and delegitimizing questions that demand Palestinian capitulation. -
Lean on Me: a Letter from the Editor
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The Eye of the Master: a Letter from the Editor
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Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price
Under Israeli blockade since 2007, Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. While major Western media outlets are painting Israel as the victim of a surprise attack, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy argues that Israel's ruthless imprisonment of 2 million Palestinians is to blame for the present violence. -
Black British Feminist Resistance
Black feminist labour is stitched through the tapestry of Black radicalism, even as it falls out of the frame of representation. -
Palestine Was Not Empty
In this excerpt from Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe takes on the myth that Palestine was an empty land. -
A System of Sabotage
The new oil companies of the late 19th century found themselves competing across countries and continents, and had to look to ‘methods of sabotage’ to solve the problem. -
A Hitchcock Blonde in Paris | Bluebeard's Castle
Anna Biller captures the seductively luxurious glamour of a honeymoon in Paris in her gothic novel Bluebeard’s Castle.
