What do sociologists write about when they write about themselves? The question hardly ever occurred to the classics: Weber, Sombart, Simmel, Durkheim, Mauss, Pareto, Mosca never wrote autobiographies ...

Could you tell us something about your background and how you came to study philosophy? I’m a classic example of British post-war social mobility. I was born in 1952, and grew up in an aspirational ...

The first centre of Shenzhen was Luohu, a cluster of towers and bootleg retail outlets crammed hard up against the Hong ...

Urban protests started to gather momentum in April 2011. Some civil-society groups, coordinated by a small band of leaders with Kejriwal at the helm, began to push for a national Ombudsman, or ...

‘It is clear that the seventeenth century—with a world-economy larger than it had been in the sixteenth—saw a new division of wealth, under the banner of a many-sided competition, unfettered by ...

The only serious challenge to US hegemony since the state’s inception was the left-wing government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ...

In a famous image, the 24-year-old Eileen Chang recalled a vivid childhood memory of her mother. ‘My mother and my aunt were going overseas’, she wrote. ‘The day they were leaving, she lay face down ...

NLR is a development of Universities and Left Review and The New Reasoner. The political discussion which those two journals have begun, and the contacts they have made are the basis of the New Left.

It is now widely acknowledged that the increasing international integration and liberalization of the past decades has ushered in an era of turbulence and uncertainty in the global economy.footnote 1 ...

writing in Conviction two years ago, Iris Murdoch expressed the hope that “the Socialist movement should most explicitly bring back into the centre of its thinking its original great sources of ...

On Wall Street, what the Financial Times has dubbed ‘the Taco trade’ – based on the theory that Trump Always Chickens Out – ...