The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Thucydides is often read these days as a pioneering political theorist, who identified the normative principles ...
Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities ...
Jeremy Gilbert is a professor of cultural and political theory at the University of East London, and the current editor of the journal New Formations.
Huey​ Long – Louisiana’s legendary governor, senator and would-be presidential candidate – loved the campaign trail. ‘Watch me vaudeville ’em,’ he would say ...
In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team ...
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...
Don’t use any of that damn smooth stuff.’ Born in 1893, Long was one of nine children; his father ran a livestock farm. As a ...
You might think, given the subject, that the male hosts I think of as the podcast bros would have invited on a woman ...
CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation, a think tank focused on economic diplomacy, economic development, and economic justice in West Asia.
Mary Flannery O’Connor hadn’t heard of Faulkner until she was in her twenties and a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (around this time she dropped ‘Mary’ from her name, to avoid sounding like ‘an ...
Around​ the year 1500, in Eisenach, Thuringia, a woman gave birth to a mouse. According to rumour, this ‘beautiful and virtuous’ woman had, during her pregnancy, encountered a dormouse on which a ...