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 ...

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 ...

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

The lifetime of Auguste Blanqui (1805–81) coincides with the rise and fall of the secret society as an effective harbinger of socialism. Auguste Blanqui was the son of a low rank imperial official; ...

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

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

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

To what extent can the situation of the Latin American republics be likened to that of other semi-colonial nations? 1 Their economic position is undoubtedly semi-colonial; and as native capitalism ...

Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so. 1 The conclusion is ...