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Et tu, Boris?
July 20, 2018
Like a hastily constructed IKEA Hemnes, the UK’s Cabinet is falling apart again. It all kicked off two weeks ago, when Theresa May invited ministers on a weekend jaunt to her country residence Chequers to nail down a negotiating position on Brexit. By Monday morning, the jelly ...

Hyperspeed of the Immediate
July 18, 2018
The Nostalgia Trap podcast, hosted by David Parsons and produced by Peter Sabatino, features weekly conversations about history and politics with some of the left’s most incisive thinkers, writers, and extremely online personalities, exploring how individual lives intersect ...

A Shoot-Em-Up for the Resistance
July 17, 2018
Thirty minutes into his 2017 BAFTA Games Lecture, Far Cry 5’s executive producer Dan Hay explained his inspiration for the game. He’s a cold war kid of the literal sort, having spent the anxious eighties watching history happen all around him. The next ten or so years were ...

Fresh Hell
July 13, 2018
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Paul Ryan?

The Worming of ACORN
July 13, 2018
The collapse of ACORN, under the ideological hyperbole of an ever-hypocritical right and a self-defeating left. is a familiar story.

The France of No Tomorrow
July 11, 2018
In recent years a new kind of centrist politics has been taking shape in France. To confront the twin perils of economic and cultural nationalism, strategists and think tank wonks dreamed up a plan to keep the country focused on the process of globalization and EU integration, ...

I’ll Be Watching You
July 10, 2018
This week, it finally dawned on the U.S. media that the China of now is the West of tomorrow, with a small but seedy collection of reports that the waking moments of millions of Chinese are monitored, policed, scanned and logged using artificial intelligence plugged into 200 ...