Daniel Berliner is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) ...

My grandmother was a good Catholic who didn’t go to college and had eight children. Her oldest child went to college and had one child, me. Your own family probably fits this pattern. In a decline ...

Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions.

Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer. His latest novel is Tasmania, published in October 2024. Nihon Hidankyo, winners of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, make us see what we cannot: the consequences of our ...

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we ...

Francis Wade is a London-based journalist covering political violence, identity, borders, and displacement. He is author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other.

I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a foreign student and scholar whose life was forever changed by her encounter with it. In Frankfurt I met ...

Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I lingered for a long time before “The Last Safe Abortion,” Carmen Winant’s assemblage of more than 2,500 photographs of abortion ...

A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles selections from our coverage of the past year, the larger context of the ...

Philippe Van Parijs argues that his basic income proposal could raise issues of social justice and “inspire modest immediate reforms.” Those who in the past have attempted to highlight the advantages ...