Elon Musk’s surrogacy of Donald Trump’s campaign was largely cringeworthy and humiliating, as was his self-proclaimed “first buddy” tour at Mar-a-Lago, which prompted Trump to quip that he “can’t get rid of him.” Even so,...
Jacobin
Journal en ligne Jacobin (en Anglais)
When Joan Williams appeared on my screen one gray Amsterdam evening a week after the US presidential election, she was “shocked and anxious” about Donald Trump’s victory. “But you guys have been here before,” she...
The exuberant star-making performance of Mikey Madison (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Scream) in the title role of Sean Baker’s new film, Anora, is getting a lot of attention, as it should. But all...
Review of Granta 169: China, edited by Thomas Meaney (Granta Trust, 2024) The London-based literary quarterly Granta was founded by a group of Cambridge University postgraduates in 1979. It was born out of the shards of...
Review of Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics by Matthew Grossman and Daniel Hopkins (Cambridge University Press, 2024) After being warned not to flaunt his intellectual prowess...
After spending unprecedented amounts of money to sway races up and down the ballot, the cryptocurrency industry is perhaps the biggest winner of the 2024 election cycle — to the potential detriment of consumers and...
The warning signs that the Democrats were in deep doo-doo on the economy were clear for years. In 2021, CNN described inflation as a “political nightmare for [Joe] Biden.” By the fall of 2022, the...
“We had no electricity or water. They came, helped remove the mud, emptied their backpacks full of food, flashlights — everything they had — then left and came back the next day. Every single day...
At the New York Times, Adam Jentleson wrote a piece about what Democrats need to do to win elections. In the aftermath of election losses, these kinds of finger-pointing pieces are standard fare. I didn’t find...
Though his job is ostensibly to manage world football’s governing body, you’d be forgiven for assuming International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) president Gianni Infantino earns his $4.6 million annual salary exclusively for saying ridiculous...
Review of Did It Happen Here? Perspectives on Fascism and America, edited by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (New York: W.W. Norton, 2024) Donald Trump just accomplished what neither Adolf Hitler nor Benito Mussolini ever achieved. The incoming...
This article is a preview from the forthcoming print issue of Jacobin on the death of Bidenism. Subscribe here to get it and unlimited access to our archive. The Democratic Party was drubbed in November....
