Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, ...
Whatever else it was, this was protest music. Their early material involved lo-fi drum machines, with vocals fighting through ...
Takaichi also appeared to immediately betray the LDP’s promise of ‘change’ by appointing seven scandal-ridden politicians to the Cabinet and just two female state ministers, visibly failing to tackle ...
Haven in a Heartless World tells the well-known story that begins ‘Once upon a time there was a real family . . . ’ and, describing the forces of evil that invaded this citadel, ends with a gloomy ...
The Last Refuge—A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales; Peter Townsend: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 60s. 552 pp. “We have decided to make a great departure in ...
Within the circles influenced by and sympathetic to postmodernism there has of late been discussion as to how long an engagement with traditional criteria of truth and value can be deferred.footnote 1 ...
Historical materialism as a concept for understanding society, past, present and future, is under constant examination, by its adherents as much as by its opponents.footnote * Some of these ...
The actual term ‘authoritarian populism’, however, only emerged in 1978 after I read the concluding section to Nicos Poulantzas’s courageous and original book, State, Power, Socialism, which was ...
Let’s dispose of some red herrings at the outset. First, I share virtually all the values and concerns of degrowth advocates. I agree that uncontrolled economic growth produces serious environmental ...
The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...