Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

How might we reimagine freedom on an increasingly turbulent and resource-constrained planet? Charting a course between rival ...

The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

Polanyi’s gaps While Burawoy is right to argue that the conceptual link between class analysis and socialism, or ‘real utopias’, should be sought in the dynamics of capitalist development, it is less ...

On the UK economy.Over the past half-century, economic growth in Britain has been gradually slowing, becoming more concentrated in the south east and less evenly distributed. Each government, whether ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...

It was a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 coined the term ‘nostalgia’, from the Greek nostos —return home, and algia —longing. Not so much an ancient passion as a pseudo-classical creation of ...