The Face of the New French Right

By Harrison Stelter, The Nation The pundit Éric Zemmour is leading a confident and radicalized conservative movement. “What progressives fail to understand is that the future is not ruled by economic curves but by demographic curves,” Éric Zemmour postulated, visibly nervous before the audience of conservative activists assembled […]

Another Humorous Substack Panic

By Matt Taibbi Has the Empire really struck back at “independent newsletters”? “The Substack Scaries are Over for Media Companies,” announced Axios today, in a tweet tagged to a story with a dramatic headline: “Big media strikes back at Substack.” The piece referenced a recent Vanity Fair article, […]

German Seafarers, Anti-Fascism and the Anti-Stalinist Left: The ‘Antwerp Group’ and Edo Fimmen’s International Transportworkers Federation, 1933-1940

By Jonathan Hyslop In the period from the mid-1930s to the beginning of the Second World War, a group of German seamen based in Antwerp combined with Amsterdam-based Edo Fimmen, Secretary of the International Transportworkers Federation, to wage a campaign against the Nazi government amongst the sailors of […]

The Future of the Internet

By Raphael Cohen-Almagor We have a universally interconnected electronic communication system based on a variety of linkable electronic carriers, using radio, cable, microwave, optical ber, and satellites, and delivering to every home and office a vast variety of different kinds of mail, print, sound, and video, through an […]