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There is a tendency in public debate to downplay the significance of populism by attributing its rise to the inadequacies of those who vote for pop...

Liberals blame the global retreat of liberal democracy on globalisation and authoritarian leaders. Only liberalism, so they assume, can defend demo...

Liberals blame the global retreat of liberal democracy on globalisation and authoritarian leaders. Only liberalism, so they assume, can defend demo...

Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious ...

Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious ...

Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to interne...

Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to interne...

Boasting trillion-dollar companies, the digital economy profits from our emotions, our relationships with each other, and the ways we interact with...

Boasting trillion-dollar companies, the digital economy profits from our emotions, our relationships with each other, and the ways we interact with...

Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free t...

Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free t...

In the last fifty years our butterfly populations have declined by more than eighty per cent and butterflies are now facing the very real prospect ...

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenti...

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenti...

Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries. They are not led by any party, union or...

Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries. They are not led by any party, union or...

Since its discovery in 1968, the painting of a diver on a tomb in Paestum, originally the Greek colony of Poseidonia in southern Italy, has left vi...

Make no mistake, the normative authority of the United States of America lies in ruins. Such is the judgment of the most influential thinker in Eur...

Make no mistake, the normative authority of the United States of America lies in ruins. Such is the judgment of the most influential thinker in Eur...

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbu...

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbu...

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in g...

In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in g...

It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, te...