Feudalism

I would like you to entertain, for a moment, an idea that might sound a little eccentric, or maybe as plain and obvious as a thing can be. It is this: The division of labor is the meaning of life. I do not mean this metaphorically or analogically, but liter…

When law ceases to protect the people but is used to repress them you know the society is on its last legs.Society only works when we have a defined set of rules to live together, laws, and we all agree to live equally under them. Once this is no longer…

Welcome to our pick of the best London exhibitions to see right now get your Spring dose of culture. We've roughly split the list by London regions to make it easier to navigate. Exhibitions in South London The artist in front of his installation. Copyright…

By Kristy Puchko | Politics | April 22, 2019 | By Kristy Puchko | Politics | April 22, 2019 | Elizabeth Warren has sparked excitement among liberals with her proposal to create a wealth tax to expunge student loan debt and make public 2-4 year colleges fre…

YOURSAY | Absolutism have no place in a progressive democracy. The rulers reign but do not rule. PM spells out hazards of giving rulers absolute power Vijay 47: This pesky issue of royalty and the role they play within the Constitution seems to have lost al…

The Game has been a loyal defender of all things Nipsey Hussle since the Crenshaw rapper was pronounced dead less than a month ago. He was after all the individual who dug up the video of the two alleged LAPD officers talking down on Nipsey's officers. The re…

Sophie Turner resumes her role as Sansa Stark in the last season of Game of Thrones. (Helen Sloan / HBO) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Some have expressed dismay that there is so much grief over the loss of a building and not over the loss of nature, or the biosphere, or of human beings. But why does there need be an either or response? Why do some human be…

Journalist Wilfred Burchett at work at President Ho Chi Minh’s jungle headquarters in Thai Nguyen, March 1954. On 4 April this year, I was invited to attend the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Hunh Thúc Kháng School of Writin…

Tocqueville insisted that old regime aristocrats felt compelled by laws and customs to take some care of their servants, that they were bound, however distantly, to their peasants by the land they shared and their regular interactions. The new industrial olig…