Seventy years ago, Querido Verlag published a densely written book that has become a key title of modern social philosophy. Underneath its pessimistic granite surface a strangely sanguine message awaits us.

After the terrorist attack in Finsbury Park, the Tories proposed a series of policies that would effectively police and criminalise thoughts. This will do nothing whatsoever to address what incubates violent extremism.

Politicians have been playing Monopoly with people's lives, and Grenfell is the tragic result. 

Highly unusual punitive damages awarded to Felix Wamala, who was subjected to intensely painful, dangerous restraint techniques.

In a national security state, the world is transformed into a vast reservoir of potential enemies, all bent on our destruction. Such a climate precludes imagining national life beyond the quest for security.

How national cuisines became yet another battlefield in the enmity between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Русский

How one man moved from gang culture to permaculture.

The internet should mean that everyone has access to the same information, yet people still talk of a “mainstream media bias”.

As Trump’s administration looks set to slash the budget of USAID and May’s Conservative party debate the future of British donor support, what is the relevance of international development in a globalised world?

May may have failed to secure a mandate for her extreme version of Brexit, low-tax, low regulation Britain, but yesterday she set out a programme to take it forwards nonetheless.

The recent successes of Russian film director Andrei Zvyagintsev is a reminder of how artists are pigeon-holed into national frames — and how Russian culture has become all-too parochial.

The world-class €37 million Documenta arts festival comes to Athens – and brings challenging questions about art’s relevance amid economic and humanitarian crises.

Is there another outlet or framework in the Arab world outside the dichotomy of Islamism or nationalism? [عربي]