Trump’s Gulf War
Asymmetries of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Tehran’s tourniquet on the Strait of Hormuz—and the world economy—and the enormous firepower of the aggressors, at the end of the first round.
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editorial
articles
Beyond Neoliberalism?
Investigating the persistence—or retreat—of capital’s great programmatic offensive, along its many fronts: ideological struggle, policy prescription, macro-regulation of economic life, class direction. A multi-dimensional analysis of an uneven condition.
Gaza as World Event
The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the rise of a new-era McCarthyism in Germany and the US.
interview
Rethinking The Second World War
Interviewed by Tom Stevenson, one of Britain’s leading historians discusses the development of his understanding of the war as a terminal clash between imperial-colonial systems, built on close analysis of its interrelated military, political and economic dimensions.
articles
Against Abolitionism
A sociological critique of calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons, arguing instead for a radical ‘penal minimalism’—a better-funded system, with fewer suspects funnelled into it, and imprisonment a punishment of last resort.
The Art of Counter-Remembrance
In 2017, a fire killed 72 residents of Grenfell Tower in West London, exposing a bleak background of neglect. How can art grapple with such an event? Contrasting modes of aesthetic response explored in the works of Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Forensic Architecture.
reviews
Three Vistas of Hong Kong
Sebastian Veg on Ming-Sho Ho, Be Water; Ching Kwan Lee, Forever Hong Kong; Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen, The Making of Leaderful Mobilization. Studies of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests.
Western Promises
Thomas Meaney on Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises. The Cold War’s end recast as upshot of a contest to enforce capital’s discipline, East and West.
