On South Korea.

footnote ＊ Sociological theories may be grouped around two poles. The first presents us with a view of society as a network of human meanings as embodiments of human activity. The second, on the other ...

Syria’s future is uncertain following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in a rebel blitzkrieg earlier this month. While millions are rightly celebrating the dictator’s fall, larger powers – most notably ...

Ihave been reading Perry Anderson’s descriptions of the state we are in, and his efforts to discover the whys and wherefores of that state—its origins, as he unrepentantly puts it—for thirty-five ...

In times like these, the very appearance of an essay like Oliver Eagleton’s offers a glimmer of hope.footnote 1 His critique of my work is both historically conscious and generous towards the often ...

The death of Edward Thompson on 28 August takes from us the most eloquent voice on the British Left, a historian who transformed his craft, a writer of some of the best English prose of the twentieth ...

Here the second foundational myth complements the first. In Zionist terminology, the recovery by the people of its home promised to deliver the normalization of Jewish existence; and the site ...

in “revolution”, Edward Thompson wrote, “that the point of breakthrough is not a narrow political concept; it will entail a confrontation throughout society between two systems, two ways of life. In ...

This is not to deny that in a few modern situations—that of the fin de siècle, for example—beauty has been able to function as a negative and critical force. That is the sense in which Godard’s ...

While I sympathize with Fred Halliday’s intentions in his article on ‘The Ends of Cold War’,footnote 1 I must disagree sharply both with its method and execution. No doubt he has been trapped by the ...