John Foster / 29 Jul 2022
The Antisemitism Party
Labour and the Forde Report
The Forde Report represents a new stage of the malaise afflicting the Labour Party.(...)
Donald Trump
John Foster / 27 May 2022
The Bad Influencers
A World After Liberalism, by Matthew Rose
In the aptly titled A World After Liberalism, Matthew Rose presents a series of close readings of reactionary thinkers who helped shape today’s far-right.(...)
John Foster / 11 Mar 2022
Looking for a New Left
The End of the End of History, by Hochuli, Hoare and Cunliffe
It’s fun to laugh at Francis Fukuyama. It’s even more fun to laugh at the legions of people who misinterpreted his 1992 blockbuster, The End of History and the Last Man.(...)
John Foster / 21 Jan 2022
Neoliberal Crisis Analysis
Aftershocks, by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant has buried hopes the world might be ending its morbid embrace of COVID-19.(...)
John Foster / 07 Jan 2022
The Democrats Fail on Race
The Cruelty is the Point, by Adam Serwer
As a Black man, a Jew, and a journalist, Adam Serwer is a three-time loser to Donald Trump.(...)
John Foster / 05 Nov 2021
Better Handle on the Zeitgeist
The Persistence of Populism
It’s still an open question as to whether populism is the new normal.(...)
The Battleground / 24 Sep 2021
Introducing Left To Burn
The Battleground’s New Podcast
In the debut episode of Left to Burn, John Foster and Josh White discuss the fallout of US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the analogy with Vietnam. But that’s not all.(...)
John Foster / 10 Sep 2021
Born to Lose
America in Afghanistan
When William Westmorland led American forces in Vietnam, he kept a copy of Bernard Fall’s devastating critique of the French war in Indochina, The Street Without Joy, on his night table.(...)
Duncan Simpson / 08 Sep 2021
Ideological Upheaval
Pandemic Rebels and Fascist Longings
Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, opposition to anti-contagion efforts has been led by a small number of fringe groups and quasi-movements linked together by social media.(...)
Josh White / 06 Sep 2021
The Media’s War
Afghanistan and the Press
Throughout the US war in Afghanistan, Western media framed the conflict in terms that suited the governments of the day.(...)