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

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

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

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

Freedom within necessity? If freedom can be curtailed by the basic fact of ongoing contingency—by the fact that human beings are mortal, have unceasing material needs, and live in a finite world—then ...

On ‘late capitalism’.Late capitalism is an ambiguous term. Lateness may imply death or an ending, as when we speak of my late grandfather or the late afternoon. When the German social theorist Werner ...

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

Winnism’s empiricist bulwarks The success of The End of History propelled Fukuyama to the highest levels of American para-state intellectual life, with prestigious posts at apex scholarly institutions ...

I. From Briggs to Flint The original period of the cio ’s formation—1933–37—has been incomparably better studied than its wartime expansion; yet at the same time, the historiography of this heroic ...

In his wonderful short text ‘Notes of a Publicist’—written in February 1922 when the Bolsheviks, after winning the Civil War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a ...