Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front
Agitated: Grupos Autónomos and Armed Anticapitalism in Spain, by Joni D.
The 1970s was a decade of broken dreams. The end of the postwar boom brought to a close the era of middle-class liberalism in Europe and North America.(...)
Free Market: The History of an Idea, by Jacob Soll
It’s as though the 1980s never happened. For many Gen Xers like me, until the 2008 financial crisis, the free market was the only game in town.(...)
Russia 1985–1999, by Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis is a collagist who deals with ideas and their emotional impact.(...)
Culture from the Slums, by Jeff Hayton
Based on the flurry of academic titles about it over the last decade, punk has become as common to college curriculums as it is to the Top 40. Why this took so long is baffling.(...)
Ukraine and American Strategy
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues with no end in sight.(...)
Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars
Because Sergio Leone didn’t make films set in Europe or ones that obviously dealt with the continent’s problems, he has been excluded from the pantheon of its greatest postwar auteurs: Cocteau, Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Fassbinder, Truffaut, and Antonioni. (...)
The End of the USSR
Until the End of the World, Director’s Cut
The director’s cut of Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World is both a masterpiece and a remarkably astute commentary on its demise as an artistic category, shattered into fragments by the technological advances it both celebrates and repudiates.(...)