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.

The events in Gaza have transformed, perhaps permanently, not just attitudes toward the current government in Israel and ...

Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How ...

Gabriele Pedullà on Tom Geue, Major Corrections. Intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro, who brought the tools of ...

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Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...

A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...

The gallery of grotesques assembled by Trump – only the toga was missing in his rendering of the Roman Emperor Nero – at Sharm-el-Sheikh, the Egyptian resort synonymous with luxury and despotism, ...

The slight and soft-eyed British actor Frank Dillane is in every scene of the London-set drama Urchin. That would put pressure on any performance, but it’s compounded by the approach taken by ...

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 ...

A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 ...

The prevailing cultural configuration in the United States is indicated by two recent items in the New York Times, whose common background is worth excavating. The first of these is a story published ...