Subjects Archives: Culture

Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility.

While most recent class satires have focused on the perspective of the wealthy, Lawrence Lamont and Syreeta Singleton’s film debut brings class-conscious comedy back to its roots.

Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid to lament loss of Europe’s supposed greatness.

Google’s changes also removed Women’s History Month, National Native American Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Jewish Heritage Month, and Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS

The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.

Writer and journalist Karan Madhok’s book ‘Ananda’ is a deep-dive into the cannabis plant–what it is, what it does, and how Indian society looks at and reacts to it.

The Bob Dylan biopic is finely acted and captures the aspects of the musician impressively, but not the full political power of the songs, finds Jonathan Maunders.

The collective net worth of Trump’s top appointees is reportedly estimated to exceed $460 billion, including Elon Musk’s $400 billion net worth.

Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.

Today we are at roughly the same point, but oligarchs think in commercial terms, not social or ethical ones. For the oligarchs, the point on both sides is that the sanctions war over the past three years has created the largest gap between true asset value and trade value which exists in the global market today–this is the gap between the pre-war bankable value of Russian commodities, resources, and corporate assets and their discounted price under sanctions.

The New Deal federal art projects never received the popular support Roosevelt himself enjoyed as president.

Alternative Title: “For Beginners and the Forgetful: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Their Historical Cycles, and the Inevitability of a Global Redistribution War Led by the U.S.”

Thoughts on gay male culture as the Village People perform at the Trump inauguration.

The world is ruled by religious fanatics with nukes.

On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court launched a sweeping, unanimous assault on the First Amendment.

As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.

Throughout her hour-long speech Sheinbaum addressed the central role of empowering women in her presidency, outlined her policies and achievements so far and directly spoke to relations with the United States.

With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.