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 ...

T he Centre Left governments that dominated the North Atlantic zone up to the turn of the millennium have now all but disappeared. Within six months of Bush’s victory in the United States, the Olive ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

T udor and Stuart historians have got back into the habit of writing very big books. Thus in the past two years, Kevin Sharpe’s The Personal Rule of Charles I took a thousand pages to present an ...