What has happened to the progressive Left? It used to fight poverty, climate change and racism. Today, many of its adherents ...

Sidney Hook, philosophy professor at New York University, has published in the current Partisan Review an article on “The Future of Socialism.” He has some interesting points to make on the ...

There is a peculiarly modern horror at the centre of Schattenfroh, Michael Lentz’ gargantuan, experimental novel, newly translated into English. The horror of the last century preyed on the blind ...

“Xi Jinping himself – ideologically and politically – was committed to a form of totalitarian rule. And he was skillful enough, ruthless enough to bring it about.” During China’s reform and opening ...

From a historical, socio-political angle, what we are witnessing now in the U.S., stemming from what has been labeled "Trumpism" by some political scientists, is not new. The intimidation and ...

M. Gessen is a Times Opinion columnist who won a George Polk award for opinion writing in 2024 and has written 11 books, including “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” which ...

Again, to quote Senator Tim Kaine’s recent statement on the source of human rights: “The notion that rights don't come from laws, and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator...That's ...

Hannah Arendt was one of the great philosophers and political thinkers of the twentieth century. She is celebrated in Wolfram Eilenberger’s magisterial 2023 book, “The Visionaries”. The Library of ...

We’ve seen a spike over the last few years in the use of the word “authoritarianism.” This is the predictable result of the recent rise of authoritarian regimes which, to a greater or lesser extent, ...

Since Trump’s first term, Hannah Arendt has loomed large in op-eds and political commentary; the German-Jewish thinker’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism has made for a handy resource in comparing ...

There is a paranoia, foreboding, anxiety, pervasiveness of fear, trepidation that is infiltrating America’s cities such as New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, Miami, ...