In the early days of the pandemic, Christian Smalls made headlines for his efforts to organize the workers of one of the world’s most powerful corporations.

My copy of Hillbilly Elegy is festooned front and back with praise from the same media outlets that have now made a blood sport out of attacking its author, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D....

The iconoclastic feminist is seeing a resurgence in popularity among young people tired of ideological conformity.

Americans will never create communities like the British

My copy of Hillbilly Elegy is festooned front and back with praise from the same media outlets that have now made a blood sport out of attacking its author, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D....

On April 8, after nearly 19 months of negotiations with university leaders, the Fordham Graduate Student Workers Union voted unanimously to strike if bargains were not carried out in “good faith.”

The first time I read anything by J.D. Vance was when I came across a copy of Hillbilly Elegy��at an airport bookstore one day.

Just before the publication of her novel "Bitter Water Opera," the author talked to us about converting to Christianity and living off the land.

Over the last few months, followers of the “autism” hashtag on TikTok have been deluged with videos offering a variety of cures for the neurological condition, ranging from miraculous religious...

Catholic-school parents in New York bear a double financial burden: paying their kids’ tuitions on top of the public-school tax they still are obligated to fork over for a service they don’t use.

The Staten Island branch of St. John’s University is more than just a school.

Like many viewers of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, I was struck by the inclusion of what seemed to be a camp pastiche of the Last Supper.

Gym selfies and posting ‘gainz’ on social media are symptoms of a world that is making men obsolete

The Week in Review: July 29, 2024

On April 8, after nearly 19 months of negotiations with university leaders, the Fordham Graduate Student Workers Union voted unanimously to strike if bargains were not carried out in “good faith.”

At Columbia, we can most readily perceive the jarring dissonance between the spectacle of unrest over Gaza and the realities of the conflict that has been overshadowed by the spectacle.

How did Alexander Hamilton—champion of capital, skeptic of democracy—come to be seen as a hero by progressive America?

The Week in Review: July 15, 2024

American Solidarity Party 2024 presidential candidate Peter Sonski joins to the pod to discuss his campaign, ASP history, and the role of third parties in th...

Social-media firms raked in $11 billion in US ad sales from minors in 2022 alone. Yet even that astronomical figure doesn’t capture the economic value that these giants derive from addicting children...

Episode · Cracks in Postmodernity · Jack the Perfume Nationalist joins the pod to discuss discovering Paglia, De Sade, Pasolini's Salo, Huysmans, and Houellebecq, amongst other cultural troublemake...

The Week in Review: August 5, 2024

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Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Four decades since complications from AIDS brought his career to a premature end, the French philosopher—a role he both embraced...

Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Four decades since complications from AIDS brought his career to a premature end, the French philosopher—a role he both embraced...

Slavoj Žižek, the wild Slovenian exponent of already wild French psychoanalytic theory, is now a notable voice of sanity.

Being “gay” was a novel and alluring possibility for Mexicans like Diego at the dawn of the 21st century, but not for the reasons an Anglo-American audience might assume.

For two months, the Kamala Harris campaign shrouded her policy worldview in mystery.

In 2020, amid calls to defund the police, progressive politicians in many US cities embraced the view that law enforcement is a problem, not a solution.

On Sunday, Mexican voters elected former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum to the presidency with nearly 60 percent of the vote.

Episode · Cracks in Postmodernity · Pater Edmund Waldstein O.Cist. joins the pod to explain integralism and to discuss overlap between postlibs of the left and right, David Foster Wallace, restoring...

The Week in Review: August 19, 2024

*This party will also double as the anniversary of the launch of Stephen's (the curator) existence (his bday).* -We'll be at The Rose on W 25th from 7:30 pm-midnight...come whenever you want for as...

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