Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
Where, in today’s world, do all our antagonisms and struggles for survival converge? Is there a singular point that embodies our universal predicament? It is not Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, or the scam
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My favored plot of crime novels concerns a person (usually a woman) who is in mortal danger. Unknown forces try to kill her because she knows something she shouldn’t have known; this
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The downfall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria surprised even the opposition, led by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, offering fertile ground for conspiracy theories. What roles did Israel, Turkey, Russia,
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Editor’s Note: The following essay is based on a recent speech by the author at the Oxford Union. When I was young, we were old-style leftists. We thought those in power had
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Where does Trump’s victory leave (whatever remains of) the left? In 1922, when the Bolsheviks had to retreat into the “New Economic Policy” of allowing a much greater degree of market economy
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This essay is taken from Slavoj Žižek’s latest book Against Progress, part of the new Žižek’s Essays series, which published on October 31st by Bloomsbury. Images of the end of the world, imagined and otherwise, pervade
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Two big cultural events this summer, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics and the release of Deadpool & Wolverine, both offer dazzling spectacles saturated by irony. But that is about
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In a recent commentary, philosopher Michael Marder looks beyond the immediate horror of what is taking place in Gaza to consider the ontological implications of what we see in the long-distance drone shots of the
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The way things are going in Haiti, violent gangs might not only gain an official government role; they might actually become the government. Following the gangs’ seizure of critical infrastructure and the resignation of Prime Minister
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It is now a century since Vladimir Lenin’s death, and more than three decades since his Bolshevik project collapsed. But while much of his political life was highly problematic from today’s perspective,
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