Populism

Photo Essays

Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022

The Week Before the Election

Photographing Italian Politics

Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)

Culture

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.(...)

Old problem, new graffiti. Via Padova, Milano. [Joel Schalit]

Culture

John Foster / 13 May 2022

Know It When We See It

George Mosse on Fascism

One of the great ironies of today's politics is that when it comes to fascism, it’s often difficult to know what one is talking about.(...)

Politics

Joel Schalit / 04 Apr 2022

Making Use of Syrians

Russia’s Populist Exception

Twenty years ago today, it would have been the stuff of conspiracy theory.(...)

Culture

Charlie Bertsch / 23 Feb 2022

For the first thirty seconds, Il Santo Bevitore’s “Fractured Belief” sounds like the sort of music that would be made by the driving force behind a music festival called Dronica, reminiscent of an early Sub Pop song played at 16rpm.(...)

Politics

Keith Kahn-Harris / 08 Nov 2021

Oh, the Guilt

Tough Times for Fun Books

What did I do the week that the COP26 summit highlighted the drift towards climate catastrophe?(...)

Politics

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.(...)

Politics

Joel Schalit / 11 Oct 2021

Civil Rights, Not Ethnicity

Germany’s Racism Crisis

It was a transparent failure. Irmgard Furchner, a 96-year-old ex-secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, had disappeared the day her trial was to begin, having been accused of complicity in the deaths of over 10,000 Jews.(...)