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My generation has seen four paramount leaders: Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and now Xi Jinping. Deng, the only one not to serve as general secretary of the Party Central Committee, initiated ...

As in the US, at stake is the constitutional right to peaceful protest. At checkpoints in the subway and around Congress, police demanded to see ID and rifled through bags and backpacks, like the NYPD ...

Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the ...

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested early in the morning of Wednesday, 19 March, on two charges ...

Entire families in Gaza have been killed together in their homes in unprecedented numbers; experts have found that, during ...

In November 1885, Friedrich Engels published an essay in the Commonweal, the journal of the Socialist League, with the title ‘How Not to Translate Marx’. The translator he had in mind was John ...

Mill’s ‘Autobiography’ was considered too shocking to publish while he was alive. Behind his musings on many of the philosophical and political preoccupations of his time lie the confessions of a ...

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