It is this attempt to think anew that I will refer to as their “Benjaminian moment.” Put succinctly: Arendt as well as Adorno ...

The donation of $1.6 billion from an obscure businessman “transformed Leo into a power broker who could steer the ...

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 ...

I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...

On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took ...

In an influential essay on what he called “post-fascism,” the late Romanian-Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás took aim at a new phenomenon overtaking capitalist democracies. “Everywhere there is a ...

A terse telegram from Dar es Salaam first alerted Barclays Bank in London of the unexpected and immediate nationalization of its local subsidiary in Tanzania. “We are advised full compensation will be ...

Worries about the twilight of American hegemony and China’s rise are producing a new consensus in Washington. At a recent congressional hearing on “the Chinese Communist Party’s political warfare,” ...

American democracy is broken, but partisanship alone is not to blame. Political scientist Lee Drutman places our two-party system instead at the center of the American democratic crisis. Of course, ...