an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and reexamined everything he did, and he’s come to a new realism. He’s not dealing with a world the way it always has to ...

Rather than a lesson in how to beat the right, this seems likely to prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for the centre. Read on: Wolfgang Streeck, ‘The Road Right’, NLR 152.

On the contrary, he has indicated that because the central bank’s quantitative easing policies mean that it is in effect playing on fiscal policy terrain, the Treasury is in turn entitled to a strong ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect ...

But part of the role of radical agitation, of political speculation and of utopian art and culture is to gesture towards the alternative worlds and ways of being beyond the ambit of immediate need.

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (1930), set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the army general Stumm von Bordwehr asks, ‘How can those directly involved in what’s happening know ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman does not mince his words: the signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We’re not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something ...