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A radical American journal
Which Side Are You On, DC?
Josh Hawley
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Dec 6, 2022
Cormac McCarthy's Masterpiece
Valerie Stivers
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Which Side Are You On, DC?
Josh Hawley
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Going Woke While Argentina Goes Broke
Arturo Desimone
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Never Forget Who Pushed Zero Covid
Thomas Fazi
Dec 2, 2022
Hurrah for 8 Billion Humans
Leigh Phillips
Dec 1, 2022
Long Live Blue Labour
Nina Power
Nov 30, 2022
Why the Great Reset Is Not ‘Socialism’
Michael Anton
Nov 30, 2022
Open Up Libel Laws
Carson Holloway
Nov 29, 2022
The Future Is Canceled—Again
Malcom Kyeyune
Nov 29, 2022
No Night at the Museum
Geoff Shullenberger
Nov 28, 2022
DeSantis the Realist
Daniel McCarthy
Nov 23, 2022
Battleground Thanksgiving
Walter Kirn
Nov 23, 2022
In Defense of Political Machines
Hamilton Craig
Nov 22, 2022
Keep Calm and Trust Aristotle
Leila Mechoui
Nov 22, 2022
No Cure For Loneliness
Andrew Ross
Nov 21, 2022
Deceptive Altruism
Sohale Mortazavi
Nov 18, 2022
The Trad Mystique
Matilda Lin Berke
Nov 17, 2022
The Slow Suffocation of the Performing Arts
Matthew Gasda
Nov 16, 2022
Away From Arthouse Horror
Adam Lehrer
Nov 15, 2022
Why Climate Nihilists Target Beloved Art
Emmet Penney
Nov 15, 2022
There’s No Trumpism Without Trump
Malcom Kyeyune
Nov 14, 2022
Against Fake ‘Community‘
A.B. Crowder
Nov 11, 2022
The Death of Popularism
Geoff Shullenberger
Nov 10, 2022
The End of ‘National’ Trends
Darel E. Paul
Nov 9, 2022
The Booker Prize Rewards ‘Diversity’ Over Difference
Valerie Stivers
Nov 8, 2022
The Email Caste's Last Stand
Malcom Kyeyune
Nov 8, 2022
Left Populism Against the People
George Hoare
Nov 7, 2022
A Democratic Star Fails Upward
Ryan Zickgraf
Nov 4, 2022
Before Fauci, There Was Comte
Greg Conti
Nov 3, 2022
How To Reconcile Unions and the GOP
A.B. Crowder
Nov 3, 2022
The Swedish Right's Pyrrhic Victory
Malcom Kyeyune
Nov 2, 2022
Brazil's Holy War
Alex Hochuli
Nov 2, 2022
MacIntyre's Flight from Politics
Pierre Manent
Nov 1, 2022
The Left’s Vapid Anti-Musk Discourse
Freddie deBoer
Nov 1, 2022
Musk Is No Match for the New Censors
Thomas Fazi
Oct 31, 2022
Mindfulness Is Mind Control
Ashley Frawley
Oct 28, 2022
James Burnham's Revolution
Malcom Kyeyune
Oct 27, 2022
The Rise of Biodigital Surveillance
Aaron Kheriaty
Oct 26, 2022
Urban Jeremiah: Mike Davis, 1946-2022
Sohrab Ahmari
Oct 25, 2022
Progressives' Pathetic Ukraine Flip-Flop
Michael Tracey
Oct 25, 2022
Liz Truss, Supply-Side Crush
Oren Cass
Oct 24, 2022
Hands Off Haiti
Ben Burgis
Oct 21, 2022
Big Pharma’s Child-Vax Windfall
Samira Kawash
Oct 21, 2022
Why Gen X Failed
Nina Power
Oct 20, 2022
The Net-Zero Death Cult
Samira Kawash
Oct 19, 2022
The Children of Women
Leila Mechoui
Oct 18, 2022
Notre Dame's Corrupt Bargain
Sohrab Ahmari
Oct 18, 2022
Against 'Kindness'
Valerie Stivers
Oct 17, 2022
Fighting a Chip War on the Cheap
David P. Goldman
Oct 17, 2022
What's New in the New Right?
Josh Hammer
Oct 14, 2022
How Critical Theory Learned to Trust the Science
Jacob Shell
Oct 14, 2022
The Progressive Case for Andrew Jackson
Hamilton Craig
Oct 13, 2022
Why Greens Love Putin
Emmet Penney
Oct 13, 2022
The UK’s Ambiguous Embrace of Censorship
David McGrogan
Oct 13, 2022
Godard Lives
Adam Lehrer
Oct 11, 2022
Why I Am Not a Family Abolitionist
Rhyd Wildermuth
Oct 10, 2022
How Unions Fight Wokeness
A.B. Crowder
Oct 7, 2022
Democratic Pluralism for the 21st Century
Michael Lind
Oct 6, 2022
Why Conservatism Failed
Jon Askonas
Oct 5, 2022
The Devouring 'Blonde'
Emmalea Russo
Oct 5, 2022
Why 2022 Is 1914, Redux
Malcom Kyeyune
Oct 4, 2022
The Girlboss's Guide to Good Sex
Catherine Liu
Oct 3, 2022
The Pound's Warning for Europe
Philip Pilkington
Sep 30, 2022
What Lula's Comeback Means
Alex Hochuli
Sep 29, 2022
The Dream of Digital Homesteading
Geoff Shullenberger
Sep 29, 2022
The Outsourcing of the Self
Matthew Gasda
Sep 28, 2022
Keir Starmer, Neoliberal Butler
Craig Purshouse
Sep 28, 2022
Nord Stream and the West’s Self-Sabotage
Malcom Kyeyune
Sep 27, 2022
Bernie Can Deliver for Workers
Ben Burgis
Sep 27, 2022
He’s Still the One
Sohrab Ahmari & Matthew Schmitz
Sep 26, 2022
The Contradictions of Giorgia Meloni
Christopher Caldwell
Sep 23, 2022
Is South Africa America's Future?
Rian Malan
Sep 22, 2022
What Is MAGA Communism?
Thomas Fazi
Sep 22, 2022
How Capitalism Became Queer
Matthew Sini
Sep 21, 2022
Paranoia Is Our Duty
Walter Kirn
Sep 20, 2022
Why Partisans Are Trapped in the Past
Malcom Kyeyune
Sep 20, 2022
Immunize and Punish
Samira Kawash
Sep 19, 2022
Why Armenia Stands Alone
Mark Movsesian
Sep 16, 2022
America Against the Deep State
Michael Anton
Sep 15, 2022
Orbán's Warning for Europe
Sohrab Ahmari
Sep 15, 2022
The Revolt of the Green Elites
Emmet Penney
Sep 14, 2022
Germany's 'Special Path' to Dystopia
Elena Louisa Lange
Sep 14, 2022
Conservatism's Cannabis Test
William Pecknold
Sep 13, 2022
Sweden's Populist Moment That Wasn't
Malcom Kyeyune
Sep 13, 2022
Boris Lurie and the Inadequacy of Art
Adam Lehrer
Sep 12, 2022
Climate Lockdowns Are Here
Geoff Shullenberger
Sep 12, 2022
Death of a Queen, Death of a Kingdom
Peter Hitchens
Sep 9, 2022
The Immorality of ‘The Godfather’
Michael Anton
Sep 8, 2022
The Conservative Case for Critical Theory
Lisa Nelson
Sep 7, 2022
Europe on the Brink
Malcom Kyeyune
Sep 7, 2022
The Wages of American Empire
Leila Mechoui
Sep 6, 2022
Barbara Ehrenreich, Scourge of the PMC
Catherine Liu
Sep 5, 2022
Whatever Happened to Feelings?
Ben Hickman
Sep 2, 2022
Dark Brandon Rising
Geoff Shullenberger
Sep 2, 2022
America’s Bad Bet on Sports Gambling
Christopher Caldwell
Sep 1, 2022
Lab-Leak Amnesia
Geoff Shullenberger
Aug 31, 2022
Why Gorbachev Failed
Slavoj Žižek
Aug 30, 2022
The Reluctant Wokester
Valerie Stivers
Aug 29, 2022
Fueling Zelensky's War Hurts America
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Aug 27, 2022
Why the Right Lost the Student-Loan Fight
Malcom Kyeyune
Aug 25, 2022
How Culture War Trumped Class War
Michael Cuenco
Aug 25, 2022
Give Truckers a Break
Gord Magill
Aug 24, 2022
Profit Over Pride
Malcom Kyeyune
Aug 22, 2022
The Republic of Work Isn’t Working
Darel E. Paul
Aug 21, 2022
When Liberals Tolerate Political Violence
Michael Millerman
Aug 20, 2022
Monkeypox and the Limits of Technocracy
Pierre d'Alancaisez
Aug 19, 2022
Drugging the Masses
Leila Mechoui
Aug 17, 2022
The Decline of American Legitimacy
Malcom Kyeyune
Aug 16, 2022
The Free Market Doesn’t Care About Your Family
Robert Orr
Aug 15, 2022
The Cruel World of Andrew Tate
Louise Perry
Aug 12, 2022
Lost Illusions
Matthew Gasda
Aug 12, 2022
Pedro Castillo’s Fight for Survival
Philip Jeffery
Aug 12, 2022
The Rise of the Anti-Feminists
Emily Vermeule
Aug 10, 2022
Abolish the FBI
Harvey Silverglate
Aug 10, 2022
The Realignment That Failed
Malcom Kyeyune
Aug 10, 2022
The Disgust of Ottessa Moshfegh
Adam Lehrer
Aug 9, 2022
The Myth of American Moderation
Chris Wright
Aug 6, 2022
You Are the Terrorist
Samira Kawash
Aug 5, 2022
Bourgeois Heroes
Chris Cutrone
Aug 3, 2022
Sleepwalking Into War With China
David P. Goldman
Aug 2, 2022
The Human Costs of Economic War
Philip Pilkington
Aug 2, 2022
America Isn’t Ready for War With China
Malcom Kyeyune
Aug 2, 2022
Arizona’s Teacher Troubles
Auguste Meyrat
Aug 1, 2022
Opposing Liberal Intolerance
Nina Power
Jul 31, 2022
The Attack on Rail
Peter Hitchens
Jul 29, 2022
Alex Jones, Crusader and Clown
Geoff Shullenberger
Jul 28, 2022
Why Organized Labor Stays Blue
A.B. Crowder
Jul 28, 2022
They Can't Let Him Back In
Michael Anton
Jul 27, 2022
A Reactionary Marxists Can Love
Adam Lehrer
Jul 26, 2022
How Trauma Politics Hurt the Poor
Ashley Frawley
Jul 26, 2022
The New Workers’ Movement
Malcom Kyeyune
Jul 25, 2022
Freezing Yourself To Own Putin
Philip Pilkington
Jul 22, 2022
Why Does Las Vegas Exist?
Freddie deBoer
Jul 22, 2022
Rural Erasure
Valerie Stivers
Jul 21, 2022
Here Comes Fusionism 2.0
Sohrab Ahmari
Jul 21, 2022
Overclass Elegy
Walter Kirn
Jul 20, 2022
How Capital Swallowed Ireland
Philip Pilkington
Jul 20, 2022
Stop Doing The Work
Ben Hickman
Jul 19, 2022
How Democrats Became the Anti-Charisma Party
River Page
Jul 18, 2022
Blame Capitalism for Pain at the Pump
Leila Mechoui
Jul 17, 2022
Why the West Fell for Scientism
Hal Conte
Jul 15, 2022
Totalitarianism as 'Care'
Elena Louisa Lange
Jul 14, 2022
Stop Calling Putin 'Fascist'
Frank Furedi
Jul 13, 2022
American Nationalism's China Test
Malcom Kyeyune
Jul 12, 2022
Body Horror Has Become Our Reality
Geoff Shullenberger
Jul 12, 2022
The Elite War on Farmers
John Mac Ghlionn
Jul 11, 2022
The Anti-Woke Girondist's Lament
Patrick Deneen
Jul 8, 2022
America: The Last Ideological Empire
Arta Moeini
Jul 8, 2022
Britain’s Hollowest Man
Dan Hitchens
Jul 7, 2022
The Elusive Dream of Left Universalism
Pierre d'Alancaisez
Jul 6, 2022
Why Bosses Love #Girlboss
Pedro L. Gonzalez
Jul 5, 2022
Say Goodbye to Your Email Job
Malcom Kyeyune
Jul 4, 2022
The Louche Master
Adam Lehrer
Jul 2, 2022
The End of Millennial Marxism
Chris Cutrone
Jun 30, 2022
Thatcher’s ‘Leftist’ Heirs
Paul Embery
Jun 29, 2022
Rising Prices, Rising Risks
Malcom Kyeyune
Jun 28, 2022
What the Left Gets Right About Dobbs
Adrian Vermeule
Jun 28, 2022
Big Tech’s Debt to Jim Crow
Lisa Nelson
Jun 28, 2022
How Capital Turned On the Church in Quebec
Leila Mechoui
Jun 27, 2022
Handmaids of Capital
Matthew Schmitz
Jun 25, 2022
The Rise of Gender Lysenkoism
Malcom Kyeyune
Jun 23, 2022
Moderna Wants You To Pay Its Legal Bills
Sohrab Ahmari
Jun 22, 2022
The GOP’s War on Economic Populists
Matthew Schmitz
Jun 22, 2022
French Liberalism vs. Democracy
Nathan Pinkoski
Jun 21, 2022
What the Right Doesn’t Get About the Labor Left
Sohrab Ahmari
Jun 21, 2022
The Idiocy of Econ 101
Michael Lind
Jun 20, 2022
The Regime’s Failing Jan. 6 Lie
Michael Anton
Jun 19, 2022
The Curse of Lifestyle Leftism
Thomas Fazi
Jun 18, 2022
The Blackouts Are Coming
Emmet Penney
Jun 16, 2022
National Review Is Confused
Sohrab Ahmari
Jun 16, 2022
The Defenders of Democracy
Matthew Schmitz
Jun 15, 2022
Hungary vs. Corporate Greed
Balázs Orbán
Jun 14, 2022
Trans Barbarism
Nina Power
Jun 13, 2022
Collateral Damage Goes Global
David Rieff
Jun 10, 2022
Can Freud Save Us From Gender Madness?
Nina Power
Jun 8, 2022
Pride and American Imperialism
Malcom Kyeyune
Jun 8, 2022
Behind Boris’s Failure
George Hoare
Jun 7, 2022
The Anguish of the Covid Experts
Geoff Shullenberger
Jun 6, 2022
Welcome Back to Fear City
Dain Pascocello
Jun 3, 2022
The Return of Recovered Memory
Julia Yost
Jun 2, 2022
America’s Military Decadence
Malcom Kyeyune
Jun 1, 2022
The Vindication of Gaspar Noé
Adam Lehrer
May 31, 2022
The Faith of Mass Shooters
Geoff Shullenberger
May 31, 2022
As Guns Change, So Should Gun Control
Jon Stokes
May 27, 2022
Beware of ‘Awareness’
Ashley Frawley
May 25, 2022
Crimea’s Russian Dream
Peter Hitchens
May 24, 2022
No to Neoconservatism
Josh Hawley
May 24, 2022
Energy Lysenkoism
Emmet Penney
May 23, 2022
‘Human Rights’ for Bosses
Craig Purshouse
May 21, 2022
The Man Behind ‘the Great Replacement’
Nathan Pinkoski
May 19, 2022
Family Policy After Roe
Gladden Pappin
May 18, 2022
How America Resists Mass Culture
Walter Kirn
May 17, 2022
The Accelerationists in Charge
Malcom Kyeyune
May 16, 2022
The Crypto Ponzi Scheme
Matt Stoller
May 13, 2022
How Capitalism Endures
Vivek Chibber
May 12, 2022
The Return of Liberal Nationalism
Sohrab Ahmari
May 11, 2022
Blake Masters, Class Traitor
John Daniel Davidson
May 10, 2022
America’s Warring Faiths
Malcom Kyeyune
May 9, 2022
Red-State Blues
Aaron M. Renn
May 6, 2022
Andrea Dworkin Didn’t Care
Helen Andrews
May 5, 2022
The Undead Consensus
Sohrab Ahmari
May 5, 2022
Right Populism Needs Left Economics
Darel E. Paul
May 3, 2022
How ‘The Future’ Died in Sweden
Malcom Kyeyune
May 3, 2022
America’s Norms Get Aborted
Malcom Kyeyune
May 2, 2022
Cancel Culture Comes for Student Debt
Edwin Aponte
Apr 29, 2022
Rise of the Professionals
George Hoare
Apr 28, 2022
Left and Right vs. Mom and Dad
Nina Power
Apr 27, 2022
Inflation Is No Accident
Christopher Caldwell
Apr 26, 2022
Elon Musk’s Twitter Revolution
Curtis Yarvin
Apr 26, 2022
Sanctions Against Russia Are an Ill-Fated Endeavor
Malcom Kyeyune
Apr 25, 2022
Germany’s Nuclear Fumble
Emmet Penney
Apr 24, 2022
Le Pen Was Doomed From the Start
Nathan Pinkoski
Apr 23, 2022
The Unholy Marriage of Marx and Ayn Rand
Patrick Deneen
Apr 22, 2022
The Many Agonies of Jacobin Magazine
Sohrab Ahmari
Apr 20, 2022
Propaganda at the Whitney Biennial
Adam Lehrer
Apr 19, 2022
The Logic of Lockdowns Leads to Shanghai
Alex Gutentag
Apr 19, 2022
A Mindless Rush to NATO
Malcom Kyeyune
Apr 18, 2022
Journalists Have Become Narrative Enforcers
Hal Conte
Apr 16, 2022
Twitter and the War of Oligarchs
Geoff Shullenberger
Apr 15, 2022
The Real Threat to Democracy
Stanley Payne
Apr 14, 2022
Fukuyama’s Blame Game
Sohrab Ahmari
Apr 13, 2022
A Vaccine Against Profit Loss
Leila Mechoui
Apr 12, 2022
The Power Struggle Behind the ‘Groomer’ War
Malcom Kyeyune
Apr 12, 2022
Why Le Pen Surged—and Zemmour Flopped
Nathan Pinkoski
Apr 10, 2022
The Question Anne Applebaum Refused to Answer
Daniel Schmidt
Apr 8, 2022
Fake Gay History
River Page
Apr 7, 2022
Start-Up Nation vs. Jewish State
Liel Leibovitz
Apr 7, 2022
American Empire and Its Discontents
Malcom Kyeyune
Apr 6, 2022
The Real Tech Backlash
Katherine Dee
Apr 5, 2022
Why Brussels Hates Orbán
Thomas Fazi
Apr 4, 2022
The Tragedy of British Trade Unions
Paul Embery
Apr 1, 2022
History Doesn’t Repeat Itself
Oliver Bateman
Apr 1, 2022
How America Kneecapped Its Unions
Sohrab Ahmari
Mar 31, 2022
Away From the Abyss
Various
Mar 30, 2022
The ‘Democracy’ Funder
Michael Tracey
Mar 29, 2022
The West’s Hollow War Economy
Malcom Kyeyune
Mar 28, 2022
Masks and Lockdowns Are Here for Good
Geoff Shullenberger
Mar 25, 2022
Alienation at 30,000 Feet
Walter Kirn
Mar 24, 2022
Only the Economic Left Can Beat the Woke
David Rieff
Mar 23, 2022
After the Clash of Civilizations
Christopher Caldwell
Mar 22, 2022
The Return of the Hawks
Sohrab Ahmari
Mar 22, 2022
The Great Reset Is Real
Alex Gutentag
Mar 22, 2022
The Unbearable Phoniness of the Free-Speech Wars
Edwin Aponte
Mar 22, 2022
Why We Need the Patriarchy
Nina Power
Mar 22, 2022
The Case Against Aesthetic Castration
Adam Lehrer
Mar 22, 2022
How NATO Lost Its Way
Peter Hitchens
Mar 22, 2022
The Revenge of History
Malcom Kyeyune
Mar 22, 2022
Pretending Putin Is Hitler Endangers Us All
Ashley Frawley
Mar 22, 2022
The Stupidity of Nature
Slavoj Žižek
Mar 22, 2022
Against Right Liberalism
Adrian Vermeule
Mar 22, 2022
Ukraine Is the Ruling Class’s Latest Propaganda Ploy
Lee Smith
Mar 22, 2022
The Right’s Foreign Policy Crack-Up
Matthew Schmitz
