Politics

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A Painter of Landscapes

Max Pearl

December 09, 2025

Nationalism and the sublime in the work of José María Velasco.

Democratic Minimalism

Oliver Eagleton

December 04, 2025

Shadi Hamid’s America without alternatives.

Ready for War

Eamon Whalen

December 02, 2025

Is Nick Fuentes the successor to Charlie Kirk?

Marked for Life

Olivia Heffernan,  Steve Brooks

November 26, 2025

Issue no. 80

Tattoos as assumed markers of gang membership are a recurring feature of the current mass deportation project.

The Family Loan

Kristen Martin

November 25, 2025

Student debt touches—and warps—every aspect of a person’s life.

That’s All, Volks!

Henry Luzzatto

November 19, 2025

“Eventually, everybody will not just be living in tents in the middle of nowhere.”

American Psychos

Aaron Timms

November 18, 2025

Stories of redemption in a time of damnation.

The Politics of Humiliation

Richard A. Greenwald

November 14, 2025

Robert Kagan's prophecies of illiberalism

Water on the Brain

Steve Macfarlane

November 12, 2025

“I wanted to present the dark side of California.”

In Poor Health

Jess McAllen

October 31, 2025

What is the real mission of a safety-net hospital?

Paying for It

David I. Backer

October 29, 2025

The municipal bond market strangles socialism.

Belittled Magazine

Bruce Robbins

October 27, 2025

Issue no. 81

Were we fighting the power, or were we an institutional part of it?