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Philipp Felsch The Philosopher Habermas and us Translated by Tony Crawford 208pp. Polity. £20. Jürgen Habermas Things Needed to Get Better Conversations with Stefan Müller-Doohm and Roman Yos Translat

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...

Julián Casanova Franco 528pp. Crítica. €22.90. Giles Tremlett El Generalísimo Franco: Power, violence and the quest for greatness 528pp. Bloomsbury. £30. Juan Carlos I, with Laurence Debray Reconcilia

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi

EVEN THE CANADIANS ARE DRAWING up plans for how they might respond to a U.S. invasion. That’s how spooked global leaders are right now about an unhinged flare of contempt from their typically allied c