Filip Noubel / 03 Dec 2020
Cold War Haven
Latin American Intellectuals in Prague
Before COVID-19, Prague was visited every year by millions of tourists looking for cheap beer and spectacular architecture. (...)
Culture
John Foster / 20 Nov 2020
Truth in Politics
Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps
We are living in a post-truth society, so we are told, in which everything is permitted, and the power of assertion is now equal to or greater than that of ascertainable facts.(...)
John Foster / 13 Nov 2020
The Truth About Lying
Marcus Gilroy-Ware’s After the Fact?
Americans are fond of mouthing Senator Daniel Moynihan’s most famous bon mot: “You have a right to your own opinions, but you don’t have right to your own facts.”(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 11 Nov 2020
Men in the Era of Trump
The Viagra Boys’ Anti-Populist Post-Punk
The Viagra Boys are never easy listening. But I found them particularly hard in the weeks leading up to Election Day in the United States.(...)
John Foster / 30 Oct 2020
No Alternative to Capitalism
Foretelling the End of Capitalism, by Francesco Boldizzoni
Whoever said it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism (Slavoj Žižek and Frederic Jameson are both blamed,) it’s a quote that has legs because it’s true.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 29 Oct 2020
New Irish Europe
Fontaines D.C.’s A Hero’s Death
A Hero’s Death is like a favourite shirt, the sort that makes you feel better about your place in the world just by putting it on.(...)
Keith Kahn-Harris / 26 Oct 2020
Breaking the Law
Confess, by Rob Halford
Rob Halford is from Walsall, situated in the UK’s Black Country. Of that, there can be no doubt.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 14 Oct 2020
Civil Rights Sounds
Sault and Black Lives Matter
It’s hard to imagine a more incongruous setting to hear the music of Sault than the one I found myself in this week. As I drove the unfamiliar streets in and around Salt Lake City, international capital of the Mormon religion and one of the most stereotypically white places on the planet, they provided the soundtrack.(...)