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 ...

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 ...

How might we reimagine freedom on an increasingly turbulent and resource-constrained planet? Charting a course between rival ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assessing Trump 2.0.The US political world can today be divided not only between left and right, but along another axis: Trump maximalists and Trump minimalists. Maximalists are inclined to view Trump ...

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 ...

Escalation in the DRC.The Democratic Republic of the Congo is once again in the grip of a violent escalation. In November 2021, an organization known as M23 launched a rebellion in the DRC’s eastern ...