EU politics
John Livesey – Politics Is Everywhere, So Why Do People Feel So Powerless?
Review of Anton Jäger’s new book ‘Hyperpolitics’. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Books
Finance
Ben Wray – How Big Tech Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs
Review of Nick Srnicek’s new book about AI, ‘Silicon Empires’. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Michael Roberts – Books of the Year 2025
A handy overview of some of 2025’s most stimulating books about political economy. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Every year at this […]
Geopolitics
Hossam el-Hamalawy – Hyper-Zionism: How Israel became Germany’s ‘reason’ for being
Review of a new book of essays about Germany’s hyper-Zionism Hossam el-Hamalawy is a journalist and scholar-activist who researches the Egyptian military and security services. Cross-posted from Middle East Eye Hans Kundnani’s Hyper-Zionism: Germany, the Nazi […]
Geopolitics
Ben Wray – Liberalism Is Surrendering to the Hard-Right Challenge
‘As Donald Trump tramples over the norms of the postwar liberal order, centrist political leaders are only too keen to accommodate him. Global liberalism is collapsing, while the battle over what replaces it is just […]
Finance
Ivan Radanović – Review: The Great Global Transformation, by Branko Milanović
Milanović’s new book, which will be released on 6 November, charts the decline of neoliberalism and the rise of what he calls ‘national market liberalism’. Ivan Radanović is an economist at the National bank of […]
Economics
Michael Roberts: Dollar decline; the failures of mainstream economics and epochal crisis – reviews
A run-through of a good chunk of the latest political economy literature. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog It’s mid-summer in the Northern […]
Economics
Ben Wray – Technofeudalism, by Yanis Varoufakis: Book Review
Greece’s former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, argues in TechnoFeudalism that capitalism no longer exists, having been destroyed by capital itself. The largest companies now control us through their ownership of our personal data, putting democracy […]