The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

Thucydides is often read these days as a pioneering political theorist, who identified the normative principles ...

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The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

In 2014, Steve Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers for a then-record $2 billion, rescuing the basketball team ...

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Remember perestroika? That was Mikhail Gorbachev’s ill-fated experiment in reform in the late 1980s which ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The perestroika story, as we read ...

Once at a gate with cherries. Know this quickly buried now or less to file history brief stuffed full of pen force, the time it takes to various accounts echoing in my library to ensure passage broke ...

For years, rumours of the death of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, were legion, but none proved ...

Jeremy Gilbert is a professor of cultural and political theory at the University of East London, and the current editor of the journal New Formations.