Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross

By thecollective From Freedom News UK Original title: Through war, despotism and social change: Russia’s Anarchist Black Cross For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under […]

Lovecraft and Multipolarity

Constantin von Hoffmeister Sep 01, 2024 The Unknown Horror: A Multipolar Dread Slowly, like the creeping roots of an ancient tree, a fear began to entangle my consciousness, wrapping itself around the very core of my being. This was no ordinary fear — no simple terror of the […]

WWII Fallout, 79 years later

79 years ago today, formal surrender documents were signed aboard the USS Missouri, marking the end of World War II Celebrations erupted quickly across the United States. And for good reason. The cost of the War was high. More than 330,000 American soldiers were dead. Families were heartbroken. […]

Gregor Samsa in Mexico

In our September 19, 2024, issue, Claudio Lomnitz reviews Marcela Turati’s San Fernando, Last Stop, “arguably the most thorough and absorbing piece of investigative journalism yet produced about Mexico’s brutal political economy.” In the spring of 2011 Turati traveled to the northeastern city of San Fernando—where eight months earlier, Lomnitz writes, […]

The Virtues of Anarchism

Christian Pfenninger, Oct 26 2015 The Virtues of Anarchism Anarchy counts as one of the most prominent IR key concepts, and a vast amount of its theories revolves around questions that tackle and address the anarchy problematique. Yet, despite the seeming omnipresence of anarchy in IR, anarchist political […]

Weird and Normal

Fintan O’Toole Kamala’s Moment Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now? Andrew Katzenstein Fools in Love Screwball comedies are among the most beloved films of Hollywood’s golden age, but for decades historians and critics have disagreed over what the genre is and which movies belong […]

KKR’s $1 trillion gamble

Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 Lee Clifford Executive Editor, Enterprise Most private equity firms are something of a black box. We know they take huge bets and often spin wild profits, but it’s not always clear how. In his latest feature for Fortune, veteran finance reporter Shawn Tully wanted […]

Trumpism in a Nutshell

It’s all on the first page of “The Art of the Deal” Craig Willy Aug 31, 2024 Few things have been as destabilizing and novel in American political life than the rise, fall, and possible return to power of Donald Trump. Although I follow the news relatively closely, […]

Can Techno-Trumpism Work?

3 lessons from a decade of populism Craig Willy Jul 31, 2024 Not your grandpa’s GOP. (Original meme @elonmusk.) Populism marches on. In the United States, Trumpism has consolidated its hold over the Republican Party. With the choice of of J. D. Vance as Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, […]

Maoism in a Nutshell

How the “spiritual atom bomb” wrecked China Craig Willy Aug 24, 2024 My maternal grandfather was a manager in the British textile industry. In that capacity, he traveled to China in 1971 and acquired the above second-edition copy of Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book.” The 1966 Foreword by […]

SynthWorld Apostasy

Simplicius Aug 31, 2024 More and more society around us resembles a synthetic confection of passionless artifice. Everywhere you look, our reality is manipulated with all the modern tricks of the trade, straight off the innovation line. AI has yet to sport its first coat of paint, and […]