All the glowing reviews for the four-hour-and-forty-one minute version of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill — originally released as two separate films in 2003 and 2004 — are a sickening read if you actually go and...
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When labor activist Brandon Johnson upset Paul Vallas in Chicago’s 2023 runoff mayoral election, the Left had good cause for optimism. One of their own, a former Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) activist, had just won...
On a chilly Monday in late February 1933, a then eighteen-year-old Rudolf Meidner looked up at the flames engulfing the German parliament building. Moments earlier, he had been dancing in the Kroll Opera House next...
According to recent data from the Pew Research Center, 45 percent of American adults say that if they could choose when to live, they would live sometime in the past. Another 40 percent have the...
The Italian director Francesco Rosi shot some of the most important political movies of the 1960s and ’70s. Reinterpreting the darkest moments of recent history, he refuted the liberal narratives according to which Italy suffered...
After Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory in New York City’s mayoral election last November, Republican politicians and right-wing pundits rapidly coalesced around a shared narrative to make sense of the candidate’s historic ascent. Unwilling to...
The new double issue of Catalyst, a scholarly journal published by Jacobin, is out now. Subscribe today for just $20 to get the new issue and full access to our back catalog. If you’d like...
In 1976, Peter Alexander — probably the most famous German-language ballad singer of the postwar era — released a song in tribute to his local boozer. He sentimentally invoked a nostalgic popular memory of “the...
On the evening of November 26, Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom were stationed outside the Farragut West Metro Station in Washington, DC. Both were members of the West Virginia National Guard. As part of Donald...
In September, Bari Weiss had a modest position in the media landscape as the proprietor of the Free Press. It’s a relatively minor news outlet combining center-right commentary on America’s culture wars with a fanatical...
Vivek Chibber Yeah. And even short of crises, you’re going to look for ways of making the policies work smoothly. And you’re going to look for ways of coming up with the correct balance of...
Last week, the US Senate joined the House of Representatives and voted to pass a record-breaking $901 billion defense budget, in addition to the $156 billion in military spending allocated by the One Big Beautiful...
