Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

Interview with the Brazilian critic and theorist on the literary and political ideas informing his epic play, Queen Lira. A ...

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

On the UK economy.Over the past half-century, economic growth in Britain has been gradually slowing, becoming more concentrated in the south east and less evenly distributed. Each government, whether ...

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

2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...

Winnism’s empiricist bulwarks The success of The End of History propelled Fukuyama to the highest levels of American para-state intellectual life, with prestigious posts at apex scholarly institutions ...

I. From Briggs to Flint The original period of the cio ’s formation—1933–37—has been incomparably better studied than its wartime expansion; yet at the same time, the historiography of this heroic ...

One of the more telling features of the present conjuncture is the scarcity of analyses able squarely to place today’s global turbulence in geohistorical perspective. 1 In his sustained examinations ...