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.(...)
H2: The Occupation Lab
H2: The Occupation Lab, the documentary film by Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf, is a powerful indictment of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories since capturing Hebron in 1967's Six-Day War.(...)
The Daily Star Gets Veg
It’s not every night that a national tabloid beams a picture of a lettuce onto Parliament. This image may be more memorable than Liz Truss’s actual policies.(...)
Refugees Were Never the Issue
One of the most memorable insights I took away from my time in the UK Foreign Office was a speech by the UK’s ambassador to the UN, Sir Crispin Tickell.(...)
Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama has a fraught relationship with history. In the late 1980s, he thought it was over.(...)
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.(...)
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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.(...)