The existence of Rojava as a semi-autonomous space, with global symbolic resonance – for women’s liberation, unprecedented in ...

The narrative of Pax Aegyptiaca, seven millennia of civilization culminating with his ‘New Republic’, is part of the ...

During his first term as president, Trump vowed to focus primarily on the American people. Are we now, by contrast, ...

In Mary Gaitskill’s 1997 short story ‘Orchid’, two characters approaching middle age encounter each other on the street in Seattle. Margot is a social worker, Patrick a former actor turned ...

The stock market valuation of AI-related firms has increased tenfold over the past decade. As John Lanchester noted recently, all but one of the world’s ten largest companies are connected to the ...

One of the founding documents of Western philosophy deals with the phenomenon of being exempt from punishment. In Plato’s Republic, Glaukon challenges Sokrates by telling a story: there was a shepherd ...

2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Patti Smith’s debut album Horses, with Robert Mapplethorpe’s black and white cover portrait of the artist posed with her jacket slung over her shoulder, Frank ...

Among the myths of Greek antiquity is the story of the demigod Aristaeus. Known as the ‘pastoral’ Apollo, he was celebrated for initiating a ritual often referred to as bugonia. Noticing that his bees ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...

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, ...

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 ...