Drawing on dense archival research as well as interviews with Bulgarian computer programmers, engineers and boosters, the ...

But one thing is already certain at this early stage: though the balance of forces has shifted in Erdoğan’s favour for the time being, we can comfortably say that Erdoğanist fantasies about a Turkish ...

Let us begin these reflections on contemporary French philosophy with a paradox: that which is the most universal is also, at the same time, the most particular. Hegel calls this the ‘concrete ...

In contrast, the second tendency of analysis—best represented by the writings of Goran Hydenfootnote 4 —does indeed begin with an investigation of relations of peasant production, but is heavily ...

Bourgeois ideology in nineteenth-century England confronted a severe problem. footnote 1 Its withered roots in the sparse soil of utilitarianism seriously limited its ability to produce a richly ...

Reading Baldwin has been, for me, a strange, complex experience. It was one containing a mixture of agony, pride (sometimes real, often false and embarrassing), displeasure, envy, admiration, and ...

When we talk about health in society today, we consider its death-rate or the life-span of its members. When we talk about the provision of health we talk about it as a social service—something which ...

With a fortune of more than $4 billion, Gustavo Cisneros likes to promote the notion of himself as the wealthiest man in Latin America and the most powerful media baron of the continent, a Latino ...

These analyses represent significant advances in our understanding of contemporary social structure. It remains doubtful, however, whether any of them have solved ‘the boundary question’. In ...

Bush and advised him not to stop now, but to move on to Damascus and Tehran. Yet the US victory had an unintended but ...

Drawings by Cy Twombly, viewed from the sun-scorched clifftops of Casa Malaparte. The artist’s flight from the mid-century ...

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