Many readings and interpretations have been made of Freud. Two are found in Habermas’s work. One of these is hermeneutic; it starts from the clinical situation, the dialogue between the analyst and ...

Class-divided societies have almost always been governed politically by a small minority. In general, this chosen few is a small group even in relation to the ‘ruling class’ itself, in the Marxist ...

Before proceeding with this review,footnote ＊ I should, as they say, declare an interest. I came to know Harold Laski as a student at the London School of Economics (then evacuated in Cambridge) ...

Any analysis of the state of the Left in Britain must begin with an analysis of the nature of the Labour Party.footnote 1 For here is a mass party, based on an essentially undivided trade union ...

The narrative of Pax Aegyptiaca, seven millennia of civilization culminating with his ‘New Republic’, is part of the ...

Zarathustra once ran into an old hermit so completely isolated from the world that he had not yet heard the news, namely that God was dead. One does not accuse Alain Badiou of such isolation; yet in ...

Daniele Archibugi opens his eloquent case for a ‘ cosmopolitical democracy ’ with an important concession. The world’s major depositories of power, he observes, remain national states that have ‘only ...

During his first term as president, Trump vowed to focus primarily on the American people. Are we now, by contrast, ...

Christopher Lasch, cultural historian and scourge of the politically correct, died last year and so his final book is published posthumously.footnote 1 Like his earlier works, its range of subject ...