A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we ...

It is this attempt to think anew that I will refer to as their “Benjaminian moment.” Put succinctly: Arendt as well as Adorno ...

Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion Naomi Braine Verso, $24.95 (paper) Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I ...

Francis Wade is a London-based journalist covering political violence, identity, borders, and displacement. He is author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other.

On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took ...

I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...

A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles ...

In an influential essay on what he called “post-fascism,” the late Romanian-Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás took aim at a new phenomenon overtaking capitalist democracies. “Everywhere there is a ...