Opinion

The Soul in the Machine

The intellectual landscape of Bengal has historically been a dialogue between the "Red Flag" and the "Ochre Robe," a dialectic between Karl Marx’s historical materialism and Swami Vivekananda’s ...
Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...
Good books offer new arguments, while excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts, on the unfinished ...