Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
Martin Scorsese’s recent comments bashing superhero movies provoked a torrent of outrage. But the real issue isn’t Marvel movies — it’s a funding model that prioritizes easy blockbusters over riskier, daring films.
The $47 billion WeWork implosion is proof that the rich are the biggest suckers of all.
In Britain, the choice is clear: the Tories are led by people who have done grave material harm to ethnic minorities. Labour is led by people with a record of determined opposition to racism.
Only to frightened elites.
Everyone knows Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, but it was director Preston Sturges who captured the volatile reality of success, failure, and the American dream.
Over the past 40 years, working-class parties have slid rightward toward neoliberalism and workers have increasingly dropped out of the political process.
On the politics of professional-class anxiety.
Pink Tide populism was built in the context of two decades of deindustrialization and industrial fragmentation. But we need a socialist left that can reverse those very trends.
A close look at the 1892Omaha Platform, the program of the Populist Party.
Throughout Europe, right-wing populists captured voters from the collapsing center-left, winning legislative seats at home and in the European Parliament.
Country music doesn’t deserve its right-wing reputation — its roots lie with the hopes and travails of working people.
After drawing a flurry of attention last fall, Sahra Wagenknecht’s Aufstehen movement has run out of steam. Yet its call for the German left to reconnect with working-class voters remains unanswered — and is the far right is taking advantage.
Because communication is at the heart of any good relationship.
Rallying behind “free enterprise” mythology, American capitalists have long claimed to be gritty underdogs facing off against a rising statism.
Too often just a term of abuse, some academics have attempted coherent definitions of populism.
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The Iowa State Fair is a depraved showcase of how vacuous and pointless US politics is today.
“Populism” is today employed as a bogeyman by liberals and centrists alike. Is there anything worth salvaging in the concept?
Deindustrialized areas that were once bastions of working-class politics are now playgrounds of the revanchist right.
