The leaders facing off in the U.S.-China trade war are obsessed with prestige.

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Sixty years to the day after the Cuban Revolution transformed the right-left struggle in Latin America, far-right Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's president.

“1983” imagines a terrifying alternate reality, but ignores the real dangers that Poland faces today.

Fifty years on, the Czech philosophers of the Prague Spring have much to offer the current moment.

How Hollywood tried to fight fascism and ended up blacklisting suspected Communists.

The partisan world of Pablo Neruda

Why have post-Soviet countries embraced populism and nostalgia?

Was the October revolution bound to lead to terror? China Miéville's "October" and Tariq Ali's "The Dilemmas of Lenin" reconsider the history.

Trump's alt-right speech in Poland redefined the West in nativist terms, eschewing democratic idealism in favor of "blood and soil" nationalism.

In “The True Life,” Alain Badiou addresses a new generation facing the fall of liberalism, the rise of fascism, and the end of gender.

Americans have largely forgotten the anti-Communist sentiment from decades past.

It's an easy mistake for conservatives to make

The writers who fell in love with fascism

What a year of retrospectives missed about the martyred president

Absurdism, modernity, and Eastern European identity in the work of Witold Gombrowicz

What can the revolutionary teach us if the revolution is dead?