Subjects Archives: Culture

The Levy Institute mourns the passing of Anwar Shaikh, an outstanding scholar, teacher, and mentor to a generation of socially committed economists, including several current and former Levy Institute scholars. On this solemn occasion of deep loss, we extend our condolences to his family, friends, and loved ones.

Gaza is a generational touchstone and the key dividing line of politics in the West. It has laid bare the lies of the society we live in. It has exposed the genocidal bloodlust of the political right. And it has tested official “progressive” liberal politics.

France suspends high school classes after one of its largest student protests in decades, with 6,100 arrests, hundreds injured and tear gas used in cities.

The liberal news media treat U.S. violence and oppression as aberrations from the country’s founding ideals rather than expressions of its fundamental character as a settler colony, empire, plantation, and concentration camp.

The late Palestinian painter Sliman Mansour left the world a precious legacy: an art whose symbolism mourns the longest exile of our age.

Monthly Review will continue to address the structural crises of capitalism and humanity’s necessary struggle for a socialist world order. But to do so, we need your help.

Rehearsal never really stops: people plan, argue, and intervene in their own reality all the time, so the distance between stage and audience was minimal from the start.

John Mullen analyses the French far right and its left opposition ahead of the presidential election in May 2027.

International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump administration’s immigration operations.

On 20 September 2006, Hugo Chávez stepped up to the granite podium of the United Nations General Assembly. A day earlier, from that exact same spot, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, had spoken. Chávez crossed himself, said that the room still smelled of sulphur, and the hall burst into laughter and […]

Spike Lee directed two short films for Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.” This version was filmed in a prison and was aired only at certain hours due to controversial content.

In a deeper sense, a death from ectopic pregnancy is an indicator of whether a society will defend the lives of working-class women.

Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community, and the confidence that tomorrow can be different.

GERMANY’S Left party (DL) has scored a stunning victory in Berlin, winning a state election for the first time on a campaign to nationalise housing owned by corporate landlords and cap rents.

NSPM-7 and the State Department’s international campaign against “far-left political terrorism” represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing the historical figure of the “subversive Negro” as a national security threat.

The axing of Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour is the latest attempt by pro-Israel pressure to push back on an argument that’s lost, but solidarity wins over fear, argues Dave Randall

Built on testimonies from Israeli military personnel, NAZA has triggered a political and security uproar over how Gaza’s war was conducted.

Trump’s Operation Metro Surge was a direct attack on our union.

Capitalism depends on precarious migrant labour to discipline workers, deepen division, and extract wealth while weaponising anti-immigrant rhetoric to obscure the neoliberal destruction of public services and social welfare.

The scale is global, not exclusively African.