Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

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 ...

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

The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

As we go to press, Régis Debray is about to stand trial in Bolivia. The military authorities who claim to try him have announced him in advance ‘guilty’ of the fabricated charges against him. The ...

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

A Brief History of New Left Review 1960–2010 1 NLR was founded in 1960, from a merger between the Boards of Universities and Left Review and The New Reasoner —two journals that had emerged out of the ...

1947-2022.When the multi-hyphenate scholar of science Bruno Latour died last October at the age of 75, tributes poured in from all corners of academia and many beyond. In the aughts, Latour had been a ...