My friend Mahmoud called to check on me at the beginning of January. We hadn’t been in touch for a while. I told ...

Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of the Spirit is not only misleading but slapdash, dogmatic, frivolous and flamboyant. The ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

In 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ...

Rule by sheer violence,’ Hannah Arendt wrote, ‘comes into play when power is being lost.’ She continued: ...

After following up a lead from a birdwatcher, Rachel Carson drew a web of connections that led to one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Silent Spring (1962) investigated the synthetic ...

In the wreckage of the neoliberal order they once championed, there are a number of paths available to Europe’s social democrats. Keir Starmer’s Labour has chosen one: a hawkish fiscal policy combined ...

Chowra Makaremi is an anthropologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. Read anywhere with the London Review of Books app, available now from the App Store for Apple ...

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and ...

Iza Ding teaches political science at Northwestern. The Performative State came out in 2022.