It is this attempt to think anew that I will refer to as their “Benjaminian moment.” Put succinctly: Arendt as well as Adorno ...

The donation of $1.6 billion from an obscure businessman “transformed Leo into a power broker who could steer the ...

Francis Wade is a London-based journalist covering political violence, identity, borders, and displacement. He is author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other.

On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took ...

I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...

A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles ...

In an influential essay on what he called “post-fascism,” the late Romanian-Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás took aim at a new phenomenon overtaking capitalist democracies. “Everywhere there is a ...

A revolutionary, philosopher, and devoted patriot, he was among Ethiopia’s leading public intellectuals. Ephraim Isaac, Joshua Cohen, Abdul Mohamed, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot, Alex de Waal, and Solomon ...

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale. His books include Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself, coauthored with Frances Rosenbluth.