Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we ...

It is this attempt to think anew that I will refer to as their “Benjaminian moment.” Put succinctly: Arendt as well as Adorno ...

Francis Wade is a London-based journalist covering political violence, identity, borders, and displacement. He is author of Myanmar’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim Other.

On October 1, China’s National Day, president Xi Jinping will have much to celebrate. The country looks starkly different from the war-torn and impoverished nation the Chinese Communist Party took ...

I left Beirut in 2006, a month after graduating from medical school. In July that year, war had erupted, or rather been renewed, between Hezbollah and Israel following a cross-border raid by Hezbollah ...

Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion Naomi Braine Verso, $24.95 (paper) Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I ...

In an influential essay on what he called “post-fascism,” the late Romanian-Hungarian philosopher G. M. Tamás took aim at a new phenomenon overtaking capitalist democracies. “Everywhere there is a ...

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale. His books include Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself, coauthored with Frances Rosenbluth.

A year after the October 7 attacks in Israel, no end to Israel’s war is on the horizon. This week’s reading list compiles selections from our coverage of the past year, the larger context of the ...

The month is May 1916. In southern Galicia, now Ukraine, on the Eastern Front of World War I, a twenty-seven-year-old Austrian volunteers for duty in an observation post exposed to enemy gunfire. He ...