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Fighting fascism at home and abroad begins with the consolidation of a progressive politicsSeventy-five years ago, Henry Wallace, then the sitting ...

In this highly original and provocative work, Dominick Jenkins provides a meticulously researched history of US weapons policy from the First World...

A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTYProbing the depths of the modern psyche in a voice at once caustic ...

The Follies of Globalisation Theory is an erudite and lively critique arguing that current fashionable preoccupations, such as the concern with spa...

Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic flaw in the modern syste...

“The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel ...

“The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel ...

The occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance sheet can be drawn. These essays on war and peace in the region reveal Tariq Ali at his sharpe...

The author should not disappear into her own work, says Christa Wolf, but should stand up and be counted. In this series of interviews and conversa...

In 1958, the US director John Huston asked Jean-Paul Sartre to write a scenario for a film about Sigmund Freud. Huston wanted Sartre to concentrate...

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years’ research and writing, const...

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be ma...

How feminism is used to attack immigration in EuropeIn recent years, opponents of 'political correctness' have surged to prominence from both left ...

How might a 21st-century revolution against class society succeed? A history of uprising from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd protests show h...

Lauded by major contemporary artists and philosophers, Jacques Rancière’s work returns politics to its central place in understanding art. In The F...

In this book Elmar Altvater, one of Germany’s leading radical economists, considers the discordant state of the capitalist world today, drawing on ...

Few terms in the vocabulary of politics are so confused as “imperialism.” Does it refer essentially to colonial rule? Or is it primarily an economi...

“She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl,...

The collapse of the Soviet Bloc presented policy makers in Washington with a temptation reminiscent of Faust’s, opening up vistas of hitherto unima...

This volume is both a diary of a radical’s working life and a public chronicle of the recent political past. His own reflections are interspersed w...

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy enduresI...

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of itThe Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, gover...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of “rugged individualism,” inde...