I’m interested in learning more about someone whose ideas have fundamentally shaped 175 years of world history. But others are less enthused.

THE RED PRUSSIAN, THE LIFE & LEGEND OF KARL MARX (422 pp.)— eopold Schwarzschlld—Scribner ($4). “If a name had to be found for the age in which we live,” says the author of this book, “we might safely ...

Hartman, Andrew. Karl Marx in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. ISBN: 9780226537481. Leipold, Bruno. Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and ...

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...

The term “late-stage capitalism” has lately been on everyone’s lips. I hear the description from friends concerned with economics and a very hip, tattooed Brooklynite who sold me a pair of vintage ...

Hasan Piker argues Democrats are struggling to construct effective media narratives. On “Interesting Times,” he tells Ross Douthat why he thinks conservatives are better at pushing their message. By ...

Karl Marx has insisted that reason appears through social life, not as a fixed abstract. He has argued that ideas reflect material conditions and often take unreasonable shapes until society changes.

This is a review of: Anneliese Griese, Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Hrsg.) [Eds.], Karl Marx–Zwischen Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften [Karl Marx–between philosophy and the natural sciences], Frankfurt/M.