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As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that...

Confucian political philosophy has recently emerged as a vibrant area of thought both in China an...

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are num...

From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital...

In nine short days, Taliban forces destroyed two decades of American armed statebuilding in Afgha...

Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of ...

Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office...

Nietzsche's reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philoso...

'Everything is sad,' wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, proj...

On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terr...

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wre...

Stabilizing the world's climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There's no way around it...

In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh...

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue a...

'The world is entering a new nuclear age. Nuclear weapons are returning to the fore of internatio...

Abandonment is as old as time, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It tran...

'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left...

Huey P. Newton was called many things in his time: revolutionary, genius, criminal, even the most...

In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Varia...

Language is a major part of what makes us human. We effortlessly attach meaning to sounds and mar...

In this book, Hugo Micheron retraces the history of European jihadism from the war in Afghanistan...

In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loïc Wacquant combines social theory, comparative...

During the colonization of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa,...

This book by the late Brazilian activist and quilombo leader Antônio Bispo dos Santos offers an o...

This book by the late Brazilian activist and quilombo leader Antônio Bispo dos Santos offers an o...

In the nineteenth century, France embarked on the colonization of whole swathes of Africa and Asi...

During the colonization of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa,...

In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loïc Wacquant combines social theory, comparative...

From Instagram and Uber to Alibaba and ChatGPT, platforms shape nearly every aspect of life. They...

Capitalism is the most powerful, creative and destructive social system the world has ever seen. ...

From Instagram and Uber to Alibaba and ChatGPT, platforms shape nearly every aspect of life. They...

In the face of the global rise of authoritarian phenomena - from Trump in the United States to Ma...

Self-Sabotage contends that an unconscious impulse to undermine our own interests plays a dominan...

'Populist' is now most commonly used as a term of abuse. Populists, we are repeatedly told, are x...

Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on o...

Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on o...

In the face of the global rise of authoritarian phenomena - from Trump in the United States to Ma...

Self-Sabotage contends that an unconscious impulse to undermine our own interests plays a dominan...

After several decades of unprecedented growth that turned China into the world's second largest e...

Deep beneath the world's oceans lurks a threat with the potential to cause major disruption and c...

After several decades of unprecedented growth that turned China into the world's second largest e...

Until very recently, the climate crisis was considered the most serious and urgent challenge faci...

The Global Financial Crisis was a shock to the shadowy world of financial regulation. Since then,...

Deep beneath the world's oceans lurks a threat with the potential to cause major disruption and c...

Until very recently, the climate crisis was considered the most serious and urgent challenge faci...

What is time? Does it exist? Can it be stopped? Can time's arrow be reversed? Can we ever free ou...

Technology is conventionally viewed as dehumanizing. Yet, as Eva Illouz shows in this concise boo...