A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.

Many of the bucolic burial ground’s celebrated residents are still, according to local lore, making their presence felt ...

Maybe it’s Courbet’s notorious good looks or maybe it’s his accessible Realism, but this particular self-portrait has proven one of those rare artworks that has permeated the collective consciousness, ...

The experiences unfolding across Africa brings to the fore the central problem of every revolutionary movement: leadership.

This week, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris will unveil The Desperate Man, the renowned self-portrait by French painter Gustave Courbet, marking its first display in France in nearly twenty years. The ...

Cadolle's luxury lingerie, worn by notable women from Mata Hari to Beyoncé, has been hand-stitched in its Paris atelier since 1889 - and it's worth every penny ...

In the past 24 hours (November 3, 2025), security forces carried out coordinated raids on the homes of several left-wing ...

especially in the context of the Paris Commune. One senses that Leipold, who teaches political science at the London School of Economics, differs with Lenin on this and other matters. For example, he ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled at the close of the APEC summit that he'd be prepared to fight an election over the upcoming federal budget — remarks that set the stage for a parliamentary ...

Peter Watkins, who has died the day after his 90th birthday, was a radical and visionary filmmaker who won an Oscar for The War Game, his mock-documentary about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on ...

Gabriele Pedullà on Tom Geue, Major Corrections. Intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro, who brought the tools of ...

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor stages a superb exhibition that reveals the ways in which the two French painters influenced each other over decades in the late 19th century.