Politics & Economics

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new--conspiracy without theory. And the new conspirac...

This is the third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggle...

Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, vi...

Translated by Laurent Dubois In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-fr...

Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil ...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking th...

Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...

During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge,...

What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence. A rising tide of extremist movements thr...

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen...

New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic...

By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside. But two years ago, she began to feel she w...

Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to t...

First published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having...

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken...

All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern w...

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a worl...

Arguing that 'education is freedom', Paulo Freire's radical international classic contends that traditional teaching styles keep the poor powerless...

The COVID-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old, and widened the gaps between rich and poor, red and blue, the mas...

Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from thos...

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a caree...

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capi...

Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech...

Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint...

A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over ...

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'. Today, governments systematically exclude sections of their populatio...

Once America's "arsenal of democracy", Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America's racial and economic...

First published in 2011, The Precariat is the hugely influential first account of an emerging class of people facing insecurity, moving in and out ...

Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter. With the speed and networking capacities of social media, #BlackLivesMatter became the hasht...

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it pro...

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. St...

An urgent and informed look at the challenges America and world governments will face in a post Covid-19 world. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed ...

What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don...

This book — an ethnography of inequality — addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but h...

To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti-Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weakn...

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day ...

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemakers respondi...

Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars. Why has gam...

Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why ...

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over hal...

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a re...

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they ...