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

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

Freedom within necessity? If freedom can be curtailed by the basic fact of ongoing contingency—by the fact that human beings are mortal, have unceasing material needs, and live in a finite world—then ...

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 ...

An Impressive Treatise First of all, this is a work worthy of respect and gratitude from all serious scholars and concerned politicians. It is an impressive scholarly achievement. Sassoon has no real ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so. 1 The conclusion is ...

11 Ibid. p. 41. There are also a number of linguistic points that require correction. On p. 40 and elsewhere, it would be better to write the plural of seyyid (a member of the caste claiming descent ...

A book by Ken Galbraith is an event to arouse high expectations. 1 He is one of the very few writers in economics capable of combining exceptionally penetrating matter with a delicious manner—a ...

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform. 1 The analysis ...