But his most epic political upheaval was the 1966 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, launched in response to what he saw as his fellow leaders’ bureaucratic resistance to his absolutism.

However, Mao’s most epic political upheaval was the 1966 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, launched in response to what he saw as his fellow leaders’ bureaucratic resistance to his absolutism. He ...

Jaffa Lam Laam’s story of her childhood as a new immigrant in Hong Kong, and how she came to be represented by a major international gallery, has dramatic turning points. Underpinned by an ...

And yet, Trump is currently involved in a cultural ... Great Leap Forward. These whiplash changes in policy created considerable anxiety among the Chinese leadership that the Party, and the ...

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution launched in 1966 weaponised the fanaticism of indoctrinated youth, urging them to rise up and “bombard the headquarters” of the deep state. Character-posters ...

Donald Trump is snatching Western defeat from the jaws of victory in Ukraine. He is extending a lifeline to a struggling war ...

Unfortunately, the government of China learned the wrong lessons from the failures of the Great Leap Forward ... by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and the disruption ...

Sebastiano Timpanaro’s politics were one of the great organizing principles of his life. After his entrance into the Italian ...

But Trump’s peculiar preoccupation with the Kennedy Center is symptomatic of a profound change in the nature of American power since his inauguration: America is undergoing a cultural revolution.

The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.