The standard critique of the liberal international order comes from the Right these days: the nation-state is supreme, global ...

(RNS) — Christian cosmopolitanism calls for an expansion of our circle of concern, not to close it to anyone but Americans. (RNS) — In the Baltimore suburb of Catonsville, a congregation of Catholic ...

Craig Calhoun is President of the Berggruen Institute. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director and President of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he remains Centennial Professor.

People hold placards outside the U.S. Agency for International Development building in Washington Feb. 3, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's moves to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. At a time when talk of a “clash of civilizations” looks increasingly like a ...

Like nationalism, Tagore's perspectives on patriotism are also characterised by certain paradoxes and ambiguities; he was a fervid patriot, yet he openly denounced and deplored the sentiment of ...

In October 2016, British Prime Minister Theresa May made her first speech to a Conservative conference as party leader. Evidently seeking to capture the populist spirit of the Brexit vote that brought ...

Ian Buruma, editor of The New York Review of Books, is Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, and the author of Year Zero: A History of 1945. President Donald Trump's ...

This article discusses the nature of imperialism, nationalism, and emancipatory politics in the context of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, arguing that since the nation-state is an ...