I know I was flustered at the prospect of trying to ask an old master something new about his approach. Wiseman would have been seventy-one then, long since inured to critical shibboleths around his ...

The dissatisfaction with politics-as-usual stems from a long-brewing desire to break with Japan’s ‘lost decades’: the period of prolonged stagnation since the bursting of the asset bubble at the turn ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘The Secret Agent’.

The ruling authorities in Burma (Myanmar since 1989) have long promoted a rigid, racialized conception of ethnicity and sought to cultivate a permanent sense of danger threatening to engulf the ...

Il s’agit de gagner les intellectuels `la classe ouvrière, en leur faisant prendre conscience de l’identité de leurs dé-marches spirituelles et de leurs conditions de producteur. I hope I can promise ...

The Third World ascended like a sky-rocket—and fell like the proverbial stick. Invented by Alfred Sauvy in 1952, in an article in L’Observateur entitled ‘Three Worlds, One Planet’, the term tiers ...

Experimental natural science is grounded in careful observation. Each investigation must proceed from observed facts. In physical and biological science these observed facts are usually inert facts, ...