Laruelle finds an unlikely intellectual symmetry between historian Timothy Snyder and Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin: despite their opposing politics, both rely on totalizing, apocalyptic framewo...

The US’s global hegemony has ended. The post–Cold War unipolar moment is giving way to a multipolar order that, Bessner argues, will now be pyramidal in structure: dominated by the…

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Klion traces the intellectual and moral trajectory of David Rieff, from a childhood spent in the forbidding shadow of his mother, Susan Sontag, to a successful journalistic career of his…

The great and ferociously original jazz pianist Matthew Shipp riffs with Benardo on what it means for a musician to find a truly personal sound—something deeper than virtuosity, rooted in…

Klion traces the intellectual and moral trajectory of David Rieff, from a childhood spent in the forbidding shadow of his mother, Susan Sontag, to a successful journalistic career of his…

Adam Knowles maps how the Swiss philosopher Armin Mohler—a post-WWII apologist of fascism and self-styled theorist of the “Conservative Revolution”—helped launder fascist-adjacent thinkers into respec...

Insisting we can say anything is a political idea that may not suit our violent, polarised times

The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…

Insisting we can say anything is a political idea that may not suit our violent, polarised times

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

Insisting we can say anything is a political idea that may not suit our violent, polarised times

Insisting we can say anything is a political idea that may not suit our violent, polarised times

The U.S. extreme right has torn a page from Leninism and is carrying out a Bolshevik-style revolution with inverted values. The class state that Lenin and Gramsci believed must be…

Bernard E. Harcourt and Dylan Riley are two of today’s foremost social theorists, Harcourt at Columbia and Riley at Berkeley. We are privileged, in our Issue 39, to feature their…

Intellectual history is having an unanticipated resurgence—and that resurgence is taking place largely outside academia. A newer generation of historians is responding to job precarity by publishing i...

Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out, says journalist Jordana Timerman