No need to get ahead of ourselves: it will still be a few years before the AfD takes power. In the five German state ...
The mood at the hard-right Sweden Democrats’ (SD) election-night gala on Sunday was sombre. Earlier in the evening, party faithful had swayed to ‘Dancing Queen’ under purple and pink lights, and ...
Prospective biographers of Victor Serge begin at a disadvantage. Memoirs of a Revolutionary (1951) is one of the great autobiographies of the last century, vividly recounting the twists and turns – ...
There they all are, gathered around the table of the CNBC studio. The giants, the big names who really matter – the bosses. Breaking news, live coverage, news ticker along the bottom of the screen. An ...
What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of crises that have sprung up more or ...
Writing in 2005 on the riots that swept France’s cities that autumn, Jean Baudrillard remarked that ‘all the excluded, the disaffiliated, whether from the banlieues, immigrants or “native-born”, at ...
The European Defence Tech Festival was held last month at a disused Nazi airfield in Neuhardenberg, some 40 miles northeast of Berlin. Billed as taking place at a ‘secret location’, the event’s ...
When you spoke to NLR earlier this year, Iran had just emerged from the repression of the January protests. How do you see the domestic situation after six months of war? How close is the country to ...
In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...
Hardliners on both sides in the Ukraine war are pursuing a chimaera in the hope of a miracle. Moscow appears to believe that in the near future, the Ukrainian defences that have held the Russian ...