Big Europe Has Lost the War Over Ukraine
The EU’s claim to be a global power player stands exposed as the fantasies of an ageing pretender.
Tag Archives: Winter 2025
Modern Age Journal – Winter/Spring 2025
MODERN AGE – A CONSERVATIVE REVIEW (March 12, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Art of Civilization’; No Canon, No West; Kitsch- An Essay in Definition; Flannery O’Connor’s Century…
Canons Win Culture Wars
Civilization is a product of canons. The Bible is a canon, and while the Iliad and Odyssey were not quite sacred scripture to the ancient Greeks, the Homeric epics went a long way toward establishing what it meant for a man or a city to be part of the Greek world. That world was almost a synonym for civilization itself. What was not Greek was barbarian.
Noam Chomsky’s War on War
Noam Chomsky has attained fame in two different areas. He is a world-renowned authority in linguistics and also a major public intellectual. But while in the former area his achievements are universally recognized, even by those who disagree with him, this is not so for his work as a public intellectual, where he is idolized by some, respected by others, tolerated by yet others, and execrated by more than a few.
Flannery at 100—and Forever
O’Connor’s work, fiction and not, is Catholic, gothic, Southern, and timeless.
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Culture: The New Atlantis Journal – Winter 2025
THE NEW ATLANTIS JOURNAL (January 14, 2025): The latest issue features…
The New Control Society
The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
The Tyranny of Now
There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”
Politics: Dissent Magazine —- Winter 2025 Preview
DISSENT MAGAZINE (January 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The End of the Biden Era….
A Party Out of Touch
Without confronting the economic conditions that gave rise to right-wing populism, the Harris campaign could not meaningfully address a deepening crisis of liberal democracy.
Toward a Revival of Left Populism
Exit Right
Europe Can’t “Trump-Proof” Itself
A Fractured Coalition
Alyssa Battistoni, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Aziz Rana, Timothy Shenk and Patrick Iber
Housing for All
Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate
Ned Resnikoff, Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan
A Public Model for Home Insurance
Moira Birss and MacKenzie Marcelin
Tenants on the March: An Interview With Cea Weaver 
The Battle Over Los Angeles’s Mansion Tax
A Place to Call Home
Foreign Policy Magazine – Winter 2025 Preview
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE (January 7, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trump World’…
Trump Is Ushering in a More Transactional World
Countries and companies with clout might thrive. The rest, not so much.By Ravi Agrawal
Why Biden’s Foreign Policy Fell Short
The White House never met its own grandiose standards. By Kori Schake
Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?
Trump likes to think his unpredictability is an asset.Daniel W. Drezner
Politics/Opinion: Jacobin Magazine – Winter 2025
Jacobin Magazine (December 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Why Bidenism Failed’….
Bye Bye Bidenism
“You and [Franklin] Roosevelt begin from two different starting points. But is there not a relation in ideas, a kinship of ideas, be-tween Moscow and Washington? In Washington I was struck by the same thing I see going on here; they are building offices, they are creating a number of state regula-tion bodies, they are organising a long-needed Civil Service.
Neoliberalism’s Hollow Promise of Freedom
Neoliberalism often presents itself as a victory for individual autonomy. In an interview, Grace Blakeley explains the hollowness of this claim — and why the Left needs to offer its own, better vision of human freedom.
UnitedHealth’s Unchecked Growth Has Caused Widespread Misery
Despite antitrust regulators’ efforts to rein it in, UnitedHealth Group has been growing to control ever more of the health care sector. The corporation’s expanding power has meant worse care, higher prices, and a mounting human toll.
Literary Arts Preview: n+1 Magazine – Winter 2025
@nplusonemag (December 4, 2024): The Winter 2025 issue of n+1, RERUN features:
Hannah Zeavin on psychoanalysis’s Palestine exception
Will Tavlin on Netflix’s assault on cinema
Mina Tavakoli attends a ventriloquism convention
Nicholas Dames reads books about parents reading books
Dawn Lundy Martin on falling in and out of love with the university
New fiction by Rachel Khong, Jill Crawford, and Claire Baglin
Bassem Saad on the afterlives of Mahdi Amel
Alan Dean on Radu Jude, Romania’s Godard
Mark Krotov on the return of Trump
Plus the intellectual situation: the editors on Fredric Jameson
Culture: The American Scholar – Winter 2025
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (December 2, 2024): The latest issue features ‘From Atop The Magic Mountain’ – One-Hundred years later, Thomas Mann’s epic remains as prophetic as ever.
Under a Spell Everlasting
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war By Samantha Rose Hill
Aging Out
Many of us do not go gentle into that good night
The Fair Fields
Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil
Culture: New Humanist Magazine – Winter 2024-25
NEW HUMANIST MAGAZINE – WINTER 2024/2025 ISSUE: The new issue features ‘Our Cyborg Future?’
The new age of the cyborg?
Neurobiologist and journalist Moheb Costandi explores the rapidly-developing world of brain-computer interfaces. For some people, these devices are already transforming lives – but the technology is quickly overtaking the ethics.
A dangerous calculation
Peter Ward unpicks the dark philosophy of the tech billionaires and how it is infiltrating some of our most powerful organisations.
There’s a product for that
A recent film, The Substance, explored the growing pressure on all of us – particularly women – to modify our bodies, not only through make-up and cosmetic procedures but also through digital filters. Clare Chambers, professor of political philosophy at the University of Cambridge, talks to us about the power of resistance and allowing our bodies to be “good enough”.
New life in the veins
Peter Salmon recounts the bizarre history of blood transfusion – and why the super-rich remain fascinated by its possibilities.
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