No European statesman of the last century enjoys so exalted a reputation in his homeland as Charles de Gaulle. Of his contemporaries, Adenauer and Macmillan were, by contrast, middling figures.

in 1954 I was an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps. As a Negro in an integrated unit that was overwhelmingly white, I shall never forget the evening we were lounging in the recreation ...

Problem of Form. The two problems so far considered—the residual presence of historicism, and the neglect of the specific reality and effectivity of literary form—combine to produce a third, at the ...

E scalating tensions between Washington and Beijing do not yet constitute a new cold war. But they signal an important shift in us policy. From the 1990s—orchestrating China’s entry into the wto, ...

Over the past half-century, economic growth in Britain has been gradually slowing, becoming more concentrated in the south east and less evenly distributed. Each government, whether Labour or ...

Fail better. This is Lenin at his Beckettian best, foreshadowing the line from Worstward Ho: ‘Try again.Fail again. Fail better.’ footnote 2 His conclusion—to begin from the beginning—makes it clear ...

F riedrich Engels famously spent his working life in the shadow of Karl Marx, a position he now occupies for posterity, and one in which he willingly placed himself. footnote 1 Born in 1820 in the ...

U topia has always been one of Fredric Jameson’s defining concerns. No intellectual thread has been more continuous in his work, from Marxism and Form through to A Singular Modernity, whose final ...

Multiculturalism, cultural diversity, cultural pluralism: in the United States few causes have won such widespread enthusiasm. These phrases kick off a thousand speeches and articles; they appear in ...

The 1980s have not been good to American intellectuals of the Left. The election of Ronald Reagan brought neo-conservatives to power, and with them a host of new institutions—most notably, the ...

Yet the swift decline of Cold War ‘man in space’ programmes is hardly a heroic story. The us Apollo missions to the moon ended in 1972, and the 1986 Challenger accident, which killed seven astronauts, ...

I. From Briggs to Flint. The original period of the cio ’s formation—1933–37—has been incomparably better studied than its wartime expansion; yet at the same time, the historiography of this heroic ...