Individualism – The Transnational

Life in a time of global civil war: In conversation with Pankaj Mishra

By Jesper Munk Jakobsen on July 1, 2021 Development worldwide, GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, Globalisation - Nationalism, History, Human rights and justice, United States - Empire and domestic, US Empire decline, US EMPIRE/WEST DECLINE, World future

Photo: Pankaj Mishra By Radmila Nakarada and Jelena Vidojević June 29, 2021 This conversation with the Indian-born essayist, novelist and historian Pankaj Mishra, took place before the US elections. Q: In your major writings you deal with the Western model of modernisation and in the suffering involved in its evolution, expansion and emulation. You have emerged […]

A Circle in the Darkness: Post-War Europe

By Severine Renard on September 1, 2020 EU countries' trends, EUROPE, History, Politics, Russia international relations, United States - Empire and domestic

Patrick Lawrence September 1, 2020 Diana Johnstone’s newly-published memoir offers an incisive, gritty, politically alert, and expansive account of post-war Europe, reports Patrick Lawrence in this interview with the author. Originally posted on Consortium New’s on May 17, 2020 Diana Johnstone first sojourned in Paris during the early postwar years, as France and the rest […]