Kool A.D. is a rapper, author, and astrological navigator.
The Russian troop buildup on the Ukrainian border in recent weeks aimed to demonstrate the Kremlin’s muscle and force concessions over disputed regions. The threat of military force will never bring a viable peace — and for the Left, the first task is to de-escalate the rising nationalist tensions.
Joe Biden’s first 100 days proposal for a Civilian Climate Corps to put Americans to work revamping infrastructure and fighting climate change, is nowhere near as ambitious as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, and nowhere near large enough for the crises we face.
At the height of the Cold War, my father was a station chief for the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a front-row seat for the last gasp of the WASP spy.
After the upheavals of the 1960s, business leaders were losing control. They fought back through the Chamber of Commerce.
McKinsey consultants have packaged capitalism for decades, offering a glimpse into the moral compass of the ruling class.
East Coast boarding schools once prepared “ordinary” boys from the elite for national leadership — helping them forge friendships, networks, and marriages to rule the country.
As US capitalism boomed, attorneys from a handful of New York law firms became powerful viziers of America’s elite.
The TV series Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous inaugurated an era when the ruling class was there to be envied more than to be abolished.
From Boy George to Bryan Ferry, the New Romantics were working-class youths who created their own imaginary aristocracy through 1980s pop stardom. Did the mask end up eating the face?
Today’s ruling class treats all culture as either commodity or plaything. We should not accept either definition.
Under capitalism, New York Knicks owner James Dolan can make bad music. Under socialism, we can all make bad music.
At the turn of the last century, Alexandra Kollontai identified the problem with elite feminism.
The mystery of Agatha Christie’s enduring popularity is rooted in a nostalgia for the certainties of the Victorian class system.
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
The architect, planner, and landowner Clough Williams-Ellis dedicated his estate to an experiment in “propaganda for architecture.” How did it become best known as the cutest of all the fictional dystopias?
Email us letters — we’ll print the fawning ones.
Meet Tony Blair, a “democratic socialist.”
With the passage of a $2 trillion stimulus bill, deficit-phobia appears to be waning in Washington. But it’s not because lawmakers have been won over to redistributive policies — it’s because they think the working class is too weak to set off inflation.
Capitalists don’t need to directly govern the state, or even be particularly organized, in order to get what they want.