Blogs about Politics

To see Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest film as condoning the West’s orientalism is to to ignore the agency of the women in it. Still from Four Daughters. Image credit Kino Lorber. There’s a scene in …

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak don't get on at all well these days, but the former Prime Minister should be flattered by his successor twice removed. Sunak's determination to see the cruel and ludicrous Rwanda …

Time for another current events roundup by Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog. BIDEN REGIME HANDS OVER ONE HUNDRED TEN MILLION DOLLAR MILITARY BASE TO THE JUNTA IN NIGER – WHICH THEN TURNS IT OVER TO …

I have a new piece out for Sublation on the left’s attempt to reconstitute itself around the war in Gaza. You can read it here: https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-cannot-make-use-of-the-gaza-war/

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …

The AI hype in the media obscures the fact that we're clearly in another goddamn venture capital bubble right now. As the Wall Street Journal said earlier this month (article is paywalled), "... In a …

Matt Buttery is CEO of Triple P UK & Ireland and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. A recent report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has revealed that children from low-income …

The extent and proper level of the Westminster parliament’s power has long been disputed. So what impressions do UK newspaper readers receive on this question? Meg Russell and Lisa James summarise a new study showing …

The historian Arno Mayer, who had such an influence on my work and eventually became a friend, has died at 97. He wrote books on everything from the French Revolution to the First World War …

Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals.

Trump Legal News, Part I: The Trial (Day 5) Yesterday's action was concluded by roughly noon ET, but there was still plenty of drama. Here are the most interesting storylines from the fifth day of …

I’ve made it a habit to travel on the long easter weekend and this year found myself in the French Riviera for a beautiful, expensive weekend. I grew up not too far away from the …

What we want to believe and what is true are seldom the same thing. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th April 2024 We draw our moral lines in arbitrary places. We might believe …

Nearly two weeks ago, when I concluded a post that referred to George Orwell and Animal Farm by wondering whether a parallel satire might be written about the present day, my old friend and college …

February is one of the most beautiful and painful songs ever written, by Dar Williams. March is nearly over already, and I didn’t write in January. But I’ve not yet done a February roundup. This …

Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for …

of my own died. Idid not die. Mylove did not. Is intact. Ichecked. Belovedswere not draggedinto the net ofthe eye ofthe drone, were not dis-membered intoinstant ancestors –not even memories,...

One wonders how the Australian mainstream media will react to the news that India, the so-called biggest democracy in the world, has thrown out ABC correspondent Avani Dias from the country. Dias was denied a …

Tom Cotton has a plan to deal with those rioting students at Columbia. The nascent pogroms at Columbia have to stop TODAY, before our Jewish brethren sit for Passover Seder tonight. If Eric Adams won’t …

Image via Big Serge Thought The good folk at the Institute for the Study of War can’t understand why so many people think the U.S. is losing in Ukraine. The skepticism comes from all directions …