BACK in the nineties, a novelist practically had to write novels about a gentleman standing at the top of a flight of stairs with a sword in his hand, his shirt open at the throat, and a bandage ...
The symbols of the Soviet Union’s sudden greatness are powered (as befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors, and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes ...
It is a long time now since the avant-garde socialist intelligentsia framed, in more or less rounded form, the aims of the historical struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie and since ...
Setting the Stage; Destroying the Scene: 1.)The class that is in the majority within anarchism will continue to pull in those of the same class to anarchism. The class that is the largest will be best ...
The economy, the state, the politics of the bourgeoisie and its international relations are completely blighted by a social crisis, characteristic of a prerevolutionary state of society. The chief ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like many children of the 1960s, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, the European Commission president, was a youthful ...
In the 1930s, the United States produced a too-brief proletarian literary movement and at the center of it was Jack Conroy. In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of ...
The wrongheaded but ubiquitous notion that the Republican Amerikaner Trump base is the (um, white) “working-class” drawn to “populism” has been disproven in study after study showing that the ...
Last year in this space I took note of Roman Genn’s first exhibition of portraits at a gallery in Los Angeles. In the conservative world, Genn is most recognized as the illustrator for National Review ...