Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past …
In this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably depicts the 'slow foundering' of the United Kingdom on the rocks of imperial decline, constitutional anachronism …
In this vehement defence of democracy, Jacques Ranci,re explodes the complacency of Western politicians who pride themselves as the defenders of political freedom. As America and …
Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between …
The culmination of a lifetime's work by the celebrated journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of how the universal franchise was secured in Britain, …
Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-si,cle elections. Today, parties descended from the Second …
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is …
Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years. At the same …
One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to …
The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the "e;rule of freedom."e; As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of …
