Former student leader Gabriel Boric claims 55.8% of votes counted to defeat far-right opponent José Antonio Kast

How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics

How the self-made man got lost in the marketplace of ideas.

A new economic history examines how and why money has always been inextricably linked to politics and power.

How the US right stole the ideas of the Italian Marxist in its war on the woke.

Rage aimed at the eminent international relations scholar reflects liberal frustration over the West's limited power to prevent Russia's war in Ukraine.

Rage aimed at the eminent international relations scholar reflects liberal frustration over the West's limited power to prevent Russia's war in Ukraine.

Will Putin’s invasion of Ukraine lead to a new world order, or an era of grinding compromise?

The historian was driven by the mystery of his brother’s death fighting with anti-fascist partisans.

How Matthew Goodwin became part of the right-populist movement he once sought to explain.

How Matthew Goodwin became part of the right-populist movement he once sought to explain.

Why Joseph Raz was one of the most important theorists of our age.

Hegel’s analysis of humanity as stumbling from one horror to the next remains all too relevant.

This is not the enlightened self-interest of classical liberalism – it is a movement fascinated with the prospect of annihilation, giddy for destructive adventure.

The declinist theories championed by Perry Anderson blame the problems of the present on an imagined past.

Rather than endless waffle about “values”, Starmer needs a theory of social power: who holds it and how to build it.

How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.

Understanding Hamas’s attack as a barbarous act outside of history won’t help Israel in Gaza.

The NatCons are poised to capture a party in terminal decline.

The freezing of Russia’s central bank reserves has brought conflict to the heart of the international monetary system.

The 92-year-old philosopher has warned Germans not to allow anger at Russia and admiration for Ukraine to displace their country's hard-won focus on dialogue and peace.

What Adam Tooze gets right and wrong about capitalism and climate change.

Old forms of thinking about world order are mutating in new conditions.

Since its founding in 1843 the Economist has radiated an aura of omniscience. But its days of playing God may be over.

Why the most radioactive philosopher of the 20th century still speaks to us.

What is driving the resurgence of the libertarian far right?

How Quinn Slobodian, the author of Crack-Up Capitalism, came back down to earth.

How climate change benefits the extreme right.

The real power of the Crown lies in its ability to forge and occupy a space of psychic comfort and safety “outside” politics.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was no turning point. It was a slow-burning tale of how Britain and the US armed a nation, and then betrayed it.

With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.

Are alarmist narratives about a “new civil war” obscuring the real battle in US politics: the fight for democracy?

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since.

How the violent upheavals of Seventies America helped forge the greatest historian of our time.

Class conflict is back, but without the working class.

How the left was made and unmade.

Argentina’s new president Javier Milei embodies the zombie neoliberalism of the 1990s.

The posthumous publication of “Pirate Enlightenment” shows how the anarchist, like any true intellectual, never grew out of his childhood passions.

By criticising the journalist Masha Gessen, Germany misunderstands one of its greatest thinkers, Hannah Arendt.

In his new book Inside Story, Amis morphs from an enfant terrible into a Beefeater guard of the English language.

Germany’s political crisis is a warning for Keir Starmer.

The Zone of Interest unearths the horticultural roots of the Shoah.

To make sense of a destabilising planet we must look to the ideas of Antonio Gramsci.

Herbert Marcuse was the philosopher of the future in an age without one.

The German artist, born 250 years ago, and his most famous painting The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog reveal the dangers of heroic politics.

How the dollar has ruled the global economy no matter the crisis at home.

Robots never took your job, and neither will chatbots.

Narendra Modi’s Hindu supremacism is capturing major state institutions while repressing minority groups and political activists.

The American sociologist Dylan Riley on fascism, thinking as therapy and the crisis of capitalist democracy.