In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie ...

On Thomas Pynchon.

They became emblems of an alien future, imminent and universal. These concrete monuments in remote Minnesota or on the ...

It was Arendt who fused the Marxian and De Tocquevillian traditions in her account of modern totalitarianism (although there ...

Elections in Moldova.

The violence catalysed the biggest urban uprising in Kathmandu’s modern history. On 9 September, enraged crowds set the capital ablaze, torching government ministries, courts, the homes of leading ...

No Italian thinker enjoys a greater fame today than Gramsci. Alike, academic citations and internet references place him above Machiavelli. The bibliography of articles and books about him now runs to ...

The ouster of West Bengal’s Communist government after 34 years in power is no less of a watershed for having been widely predicted. For more than a generation the Party had shaped the culture, ...