Between Oligarchy and Democracy
July 11, 2018
“So Republican language has gotten more and more crazy."
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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 ...
No Country of Civil Men
The great hallelujah chorus of official liberal consensus has met the moral emergency of the Trump era with a bold message: Be nice. Be deferential. And if you must protest the multifront Trumpian assault on due process, basic government accountability, and virtually every other ...
HELLO, NEW YORK! STROUD CALLING!
Gordon Lish takes a transatlantic call
Fresh Hell
July 06, 2018
We hold these truths to be full of shit.
A March For the Marchers
Despite all their incipient good intentions, marches do not help undocumented immigrants.
Organizing on the DL
There are a lot of things you can do to fight ICE that would be less likely to expose you or your loved ones to surveillance.
The Last Temptation of Paul Schrader
July 04, 2018
The actor is powerless, caught in a net of deceit. Here we are again: predestination and grace.
No Really, You Don’t Need a Weatherman
July 03, 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 ...
Projections of Melania
July 02, 2018
The left’s most persistent—and giddiest—Melania fantasy: that she’s secretly one of us, can’t stand Trump either, and will go rogue one glorious day.
The Border and the American Imagination
July 02, 2018
“Immigration crisis” ignores the fact that “fighting Mexicans” is essential to the construction of the United States and its identity—and the culture of violence it celebrates.