The first centre of Shenzhen was Luohu, a cluster of towers and bootleg retail outlets crammed hard up against the Hong ...

On Wall Street, what the Financial Times has dubbed ‘the Taco trade’ – based on the theory that Trump Always Chickens Out – ...

The only serious challenge to US hegemony since the state’s inception was the left-wing government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ...

‘I want everything I make to corpse’, Ed Atkins announces in the wall text of his current exhibition at Tate Britain. It’s a mission statement in more ways than one. Death has been a consistent theme ...

NLR is a development of Universities and Left Review and The New Reasoner. The political discussion which those two journals have begun, and the contacts they have made are the basis of the New Left.

Could you tell us something about your background and how you came to study philosophy? I’m a classic example of British post-war social mobility. I was born in 1952, and grew up in an aspirational ...

The subject of the film is globalization and the sea, the ‘forgotten space’ of our modernity. Its premise is that the oceans remain the crucial space of globalization: nowhere else is the ...

Iundertook to write this obituary of Louis Althusser for the alumni of the École Normale Supérieure in 1993, nearly three years after the thinker’s death; and not without hesitations and ...

What do sociologists write about when they write about themselves? The question hardly ever occurred to the classics: Weber, Sombart, Simmel, Durkheim, Mauss, Pareto, Mosca never wrote autobiographies ...

‘It is clear that the seventeenth century—with a world-economy larger than it had been in the sixteenth—saw a new division of wealth, under the banner of a many-sided competition, unfettered by ...