Josh White / 15 Dec 2025
In Search of Collective Leadership
The Promise and Peril of Your Party
Although Your Party is now the largest socialist party in Britain, it may be doomed by internal conflict.(...)
New York
Charlie Bertsch / 12 Nov 2025
Pop Goes the Proletariat
All That’s Solid Melts Into Air, by Devon Church
Devon Church’s new album All That’s Solid Melts Into Air reminds us that music can make political points without sounding too political.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 08 Oct 2025
Erasing the 1960s
One Battle After Another, Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Like President Donald Trump, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another has a problem with the 1960s.(...)
John Foster / 02 Aug 2024
The End of an Era
Remembering Lewis Lapham
The death of Lewis Lapham feels like the passing of an era, not simply in the rarified world of America’s literary elite.(...)
Joel Schalit / 23 Jul 2024
Unofficial Italy
Aperture Priorities Contact Sheet #21
Everyone was Black. But they were speaking Italian, peppered with French and Arabic.(...)
John Foster / 31 May 2024
The Guilty Archipelago
Trump as Criminal
When the peals of laughter broke out in the building, I knew what had happened.(...)
Ari Paul / 30 May 2024
Stop Repressing Campus Protests
The Moral Superiority of Students
In 2003, student protesters against the US-led invasion of Iraq felt under attack from all sides.(...)
The Battleground / 29 Apr 2024
The Brussels Session
The Battleground at the Press Club
The Battleground began celebrating its fifth anniversary in February when the team held its annual meeting in Brussels.(...)