Class or Identity Politics?
The Brenner-Riley Controversy
It sparked a revolution, at least in terms of debate, that was years in the making.(...)
The Brenner-Riley Controversy
It sparked a revolution, at least in terms of debate, that was years in the making.(...)
The Limits of Giorgia Meloni
She couldn’t have been more humiliated. But reality takes no prisoners, and Giorgia Meloni would not be spared.(...)
Silvio Berlusconi and L’Etat Pour Moi
There’s an old Doonesbury comic strip about a group of rich people attending a seminar to overcome their guilt about being rich.(...)
The New Feudalism, Part II
The United States of Coke, or illiberal Hungary? It's hard to get excited.(...)
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism
In Cory Doctorow’s dystopian novel Attack Surface, a disaffected hacker provides a tart postmortem for liberal democracy.(...)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
When The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover first hit the screen in 1989, it inspired the sort of intense reactions normally restricted to horror films.(...)
Sleaford Mods’ UK Grim
If the UK had gone in a different direction over the past decade, if its leaders had remembered the people who slaved to make it great, Sleaford Mods might have become one of those novelty acts that disappear from view after a song or two.(...)
Sunak’s Austerity Crisis
Streetlands, by Burial
Burial’s new Streetlands EP may be his most beautiful work to date.(...)