Europe’s automotive sector – the bulk of which is concentrated in Germany and its hinterlands – had suffered €100 billion of ...

Paths for the French left.

Progressive currents are gaining ground. Might they soon find their way into the halls of power?

We are sometimes blessed with unexpected moments of truth. ‘The fish rots from the head’, declared French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal as he pounced on the latest fabrication of the unconditional ...

Mark Rothko’s interest in light and space is evident in any encounter with his work. But he was also the author of a theoretical treatise on artistic practice, never published in his lifetime, ...

John Gray originally came to prominence in the 1980s as one of the most formidable and articulate defenders of the anti-rationalist tradition of liberalism which had been revived by Hayek and his ...

At any rate, it seemed advisable to define a position differing both from mainstream modernizers, who saw adaptation to modernity as the unambiguous achievement to be aimed at, and from ...

The long route from the informal shop-floor democracy of the first Briggs strike to the boardroom wheeling-dealing of the 1950 settlement, and the corresponding dilution and displacement of rank and ...

In his 1973 essay on the painter Jacques Monory, Jean-François Lyotard makes significant use of the following tale from Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings: In one of the volumes of the Lettres ...

Agarden gnome is no longer a garden gnome. This is the dilemma facing contemporary art, that is circumscribed by the unhappy concept of post-modernity.footnote ＊ Up until a certain moment (let us take ...

The events of the past weeks in Palestine have been a near-total triumph for Zionism in the United States. Political and public discourse has so definitively transformed Israel into the victim during ...

The real merit of the critique made by Margaret Coulson, Branka Magaš and Hilary Wainwright of my analysis of domestic labourfootnote 1 is that it focusses discussion about the strategic relation of ...