The neo-Schumpeterian approach of Philippe Aghion – co-author of The Power of Creative Destruction (2021), among many other ...

See too, inter alia, his renaming of the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his deployment of the national guard ...

Palestine war that began in 1947 has still not ended. Its leaders – social democrats like Ben Gurion and Golda Meir in the ...

On Thomas Pynchon.

They became emblems of an alien future, imminent and universal. These concrete monuments in remote Minnesota or on the ...

In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie moves in the opposite direction to Dickinson – towards lo-fi realism, the ...

When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...

The ouster of West Bengal’s Communist government after 34 years in power is no less of a watershed for having been widely predicted. For more than a generation the Party had shaped the culture, ...

Elections in Moldova.

After eighteen years, Die Linke is no longer a presence in the German Bundestag. When Sahra Wagenknecht and nine other MPs quit the party last October, the remaining deputies lost their status as a ...

In Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (1930), set in Vienna on the eve of the First World War, the army general Stumm von Bordwehr asks, ‘How can those directly involved in what’s happening know ...