John Foster / 23 Sep 2023
Class or Identity Politics?
The Brenner-Riley Controversy
It sparked a revolution, at least in terms of debate, that was years in the making.(...)
Neoliberalism
John Foster / 04 Aug 2023
The Economy Will Defeat Her
The Limits of Giorgia Meloni
She couldn’t have been more humiliated. But reality takes no prisoners, and Giorgia Meloni would not be spared.(...)
Basilio Korman / 17 Jun 2023
Only Loyal to Himself
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.(...)
John Foster / 16 Jun 2023
The Coming Capitalism
The New Feudalism, Part II
The United States of Coke, or illiberal Hungary? It's hard to get excited.(...)
John Foster / 09 Jun 2023
The New Feudalism
Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism
In Cory Doctorow’s dystopian novel Attack Surface, a disaffected hacker provides a tart postmortem for liberal democracy.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 27 Apr 2023
The Horrors of Neoliberalism
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.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 15 Mar 2023
Socialist Realism Done Right
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.(...)
Josh White / 19 Dec 2022
Britain on Strike
Sunak’s Austerity Crisis
The UK is a broken country. As 2022 comes to a close, the disaster couldn’t be any clearer.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 26 Oct 2022
Transcending the Crisis
Streetlands, by Burial
Burial’s new Streetlands EP may be his most beautiful work to date.(...)