Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

It was a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 coined the term ‘nostalgia’, from the Greek nostos —return home, and algia —longing. Not so much an ancient passion as a pseudo-classical creation of ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...

As we go to press, Régis Debray is about to stand trial in Bolivia. The military authorities who claim to try him have announced him in advance ‘guilty’ of the fabricated charges against him. The ...

One of the more telling features of the present conjuncture is the scarcity of analyses able squarely to place today’s global turbulence in geohistorical perspective. 1 In his sustained examinations ...

A Tendency to Profit From a Fallen Theory Turning to Coates’ first underlying assumption, it is clearly beyond the scope of this essay to go into all the arguments for and against the theory of the ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so. 1 The conclusion is ...