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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

Tradition and adaptation.How to relate to the Leninist tradition? How to extract its truth? The basis of Lenin’s success was the perfect adaptation of his political strategy to the historical terrain ...

The EU and Ukraine.With negotiations for a peace agreement in Ukraine now underway, and Washington signalling a possible détente with the Kremlin, European states are doing everything they can to ...