George kennan was an inescapable presence in post-war American foreign relations, intellectually as well as politically.

Grey Anderson on Edward Luce, Zbig. Biography of Brzezinski, updating the American strategist and Russia hawk for present ...

Nic Johnson on Melinda Cooper, Counterrevolution. Neoliberalism as programme to head off the radical potential of the ...

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

In 1922 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote to a friend that he was haunted by the possibility of an eventual flight to Russia. About two years later he sent the same friend some newspaper clippings of ...

The subject of our session this evening has been a focus of intellectual debate and political passion for at least six or seven decades now.footnote ＊ It already has a long history, in other words. It ...

In his Inquiry Steuart had postulated a threefold process of development in history from pastoral nomadic, through agrarian to modern society characterized by the exchange economy. The change from one ...

Though less well-known in the Anglophone world, the economist turned social philosopher Frédéric Lordon has emerged as one of the most effective public figures of the French intellectual left. On tv ...

Gregory Elliott’s book appears at a time when the reputation of its subject seems near to total eclipse.footnote 1 In Althusser’s own country he is, as Elliott reports, practically a ‘dead dog’, ...

‘Temperate I am, yet never had a temper,’ Byron wrote in the unfinished seventeenth canto of Don Juan, whose fragments he took with him on his final expedition to Greece in 1823: The picture is both ...

The Sarekat Islam had been established originally by Indonesian cloth manufacturers and traders as an association to protect their interests against the encroachment of Chinese merchants. It was an ...

This is not the place for an examination of he purges which devastated the Soviet Union in the 1930’s, and their impact on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The aim of this introduction is very ...