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On this page you can explore LMD’s English-language archive since 1996, indexed by date, telescoping out from our issues ('the longer view') or through the news, as well as classic texts drawn from our French edition

...through the news

Articles related to recent events

...the longer view

A selection of archives related to the countries, the events, and the big questions addressed in our monthly issue: March 2026

…classic texts

Articles drawn from the French edition’s archive, which stretches back to 1954

  • The effects of a communications revolution

    Jacques Ellul, May 1965
    Today, forms of mass communication, especially telecommunication, are developing and perfecting themselves at a pace that is difficult to imagine — faster, perhaps, than any other (…) →

  • The language of the foreigner

    Jacques Derrida, January 2002
    On 22 September 2001 Jacques Derrida, philosopher, writer and professor at the École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), was awarded Frankfurt’s Theodor-W-Adorno prize. (…) →

  • What is literature for?

    Juan Goytisolo & Günter Grass, November 1999
    The German writer Günter Grass won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, a decision that delighted all those who have admired the radical power of Grass’s writing since The Tin Drum (…) →

  • The media, the intelligentsia and Pierre Bourdieu

    Jacques Bouveresse, February 2004
    The media have begun to value media criticism, which now appears in newspapers and on radio and television, generally in a fairly harmless form. It allows them to be seen as final (…) →

...by date

All our issues indexed by date, since 1996

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    Gaza: from witness to resistance

    January 2026

  • Spain: from Francoism to feminist revolution

    November 2025

  • The geopolitics of emotions

    September 2025

  • Peace: how is it made?

    May 2025

...special focus

These online dossiers bring together our articles, maps, and resources on a hot topic

.....by popularity

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  • The fiction that moves the world forward, if we defend it

    Pedro Sánchez, April 2026
    The only real alternative to a multilateral order is not a new equilibrium, but disorder and chaos. Spain’s prime minister sets out the case for renewing multilateralism. →

  • Israel deliberately forgets its history

    Shlomo Sand, September 2008
    An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the (…) →

  • This is Israel’s war

    Adlene Mohammedi, April 2026
    US imperialism is all too evident in the methods of the war in Iran, but what of its aims? With Trump struggling to articulate them clearly, it’s much easier to see what Israel (…) →

  • Fierce optimism

    Benoît Bréville, April 2026
    On Saturday 7 March 50,000 people marched in London in protest at the war Israel and the United States are waging in Iran. It was a notable turnout by the standards of other Western (…) →

  • Is Russia really the winner?

    Hélène Richard, April 2026
    Will Vladimir Putin be the real winner of Trump and Netanyahu’s war on Iran? The Russian federal budget for 2026 was based on an anticipated average of $59 per barrel of Urals crude (…) →

  • April: the longer view

    April 2023
    The month’s archives. →

  • Quiet please, we’re shooting

    Gideon Levy, April 2026
    A year ago, Israelis were told the Iranian threat had been neutralised. So why are they once again united in war against a danger, real or imagined? →

  • July: the longer view

    July 2025
    The month’s archives. →