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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of…
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One century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the “rotten crowd,” Jazz Age Americans with far more money than morals. In A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby, John Marsh welcomes us back to Fitzgerald’s world to examine the rich and their reckless approach to human…
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About This Project This photo essay is part of a yearlong Chronicle visual series that highlights the challenges facing first-generation students and others. The series is part of the Different Voices of Student Success project, which is supported by the Ascendium Education Group. This piece was created by the photographer Dustin Chambers, with narrative by Graham Vyse, a Chronicle staff reporter. It…
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by Kuang Xiaolu, Li Zhi and Xie Fusheng (Dec 01, 2024) Topics: Capitalism Labor Monopoly Movements Political Economy Places: Asia China Global Workers in a fiber optic cable factory. Photo credit: Flickr. Kuang Xiaolu is an assistant professor at the School of Marxism of Tsinghua University in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Li Zhi (corresponding author, lizhirucecon@ruc.edu.cn) is an assistant professor at the School of Economics of Renmin University of China, People’s Republic of…
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Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it. By Max Norman December 7, 2024Play/Pause Button Illustration by Vivek Thakker Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars…
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