globalinequality

  W hile writing the chapter on Marx and on how he thought about inequality for my new book, I reread most of his writings (and read some th...

    K arl Marx is back in the West. After having done a tour du monde that took him from a German émigré philosopher to a maître à penser o...

  I should feel happy. I got it right. The entire Chapter 5 of “Capitalism, Alone”   is an exposition of increasing commodification of every...

  Y ang Jisheng’s “The world turned upside down” (whose methodological approach I reviewed here ) is an extraordinary rich book. The ten-ye...

  T his may be the most difficult book review to write. I have decided to break it into two parts. Writing it is difficult because one has t...

  S everal years ago, Anthony Kaldellis, professor of classics, published a book with an intriguing title “The Byzantine Republic ”. The boo...

  I n 1967, at the half-centennial of the Russian Revolution, the Royal Institute of international Affairs (RIIA) in London published a book...