Eric Hobsbawm's work spanned everything from jazz to the history of banditry, in thousands of texts he wrote in several languages. A new project has brought together his writings in a searchable database — offering readers a goldmine of work by Britain's greatest Marxist historian.
The Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border in recent weeks aimed to demonstrate the Kremlin’s muscle and force concessions over disputed regions. The threat of military force will never bring a viable peace — and for the Left, the first task is to de-escalate the rising nationalist tensions.
Joe Biden’s first 100 days proposal for a Civilian Climate Corps to put Americans to work revamping infrastructure and fighting climate change, is nowhere near as ambitious as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, and nowhere near large enough for the crises we face.
As US capitalism boomed, attorneys from a handful of New York law firms became powerful viziers of America’s elite.
East Coast boarding schools once prepared “ordinary” boys from the elite for national leadership — helping them forge friendships, networks, and marriages to rule the country.
McKinsey consultants have packaged capitalism for decades, offering a glimpse into the moral compass of the ruling class.
After the upheavals of the 1960s, business leaders were losing control. They fought back through the Chamber of Commerce.
At the height of the Cold War, my father was a station chief for the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a front-row seat for the last gasp of the WASP spy.
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
The mystery of Agatha Christie’s enduring popularity is rooted in a nostalgia for the certainties of the Victorian class system.
At the turn of the last century, Alexandra Kollontai identified the problem with elite feminism.