Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. At a time when talk of a “clash of civilizations” looks increasingly like a ...

People hold placards outside the U.S. Agency for International Development building in Washington Feb. 3, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's moves to shut down the U.S. foreign aid agency.

Craig Calhoun is President of the Berggruen Institute. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director and President of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he remains Centennial Professor.

I have always been very aware that literature is subject to categorization by nationality, partly because none of the resultant categories easily includes me or, indeed, my writing. I was born in ...

Cosmopolitanism has become an influential theory in both political and, increasingly, educational discourse. In simple terms cosmopolitanism can be understood as a response to the globalised and ...

For many cosmopolitans, an emergent global civil society is reframing the relationship between the universal and particular in world politics in ways that do justice to both. This article disputes ...

(RNS) — Christian cosmopolitanism calls for an expansion of our circle of concern, not to close it to anyone but Americans. (RNS) — In the Baltimore suburb of Catonsville, a congregation of Catholic ...

A couple I know who’d been living in Beijing—she’s American and he’s Australian—are marooned in Budapest, waiting for China to reopen its borders. A friend wrote me from Boston. She has both an ...