In 1924, a group of linguists published a study which aimed to decode the power of Lenin's language – today, a newly-translated version sheds light on the contributions words can make to revolutionary politics.
Christian faith in reason and in progress was the foundation on which Western success was achieved.
Edward Said’s “Orientalism” instilled an anti-imperial sensibility into an entire generation of Western scholars. But even while it castigated the imperial project, its actual analysis didn’t give us the intellectual resources to overturn it.