
War on Wheels
Formula One has its origins in Italian and German fascism. It continues to flirt with authoritarianism today.
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Formula One has its origins in Italian and German fascism. It continues to flirt with authoritarianism today.
Except this time, a bit more off-key than usual.
When German fascism came to power, it interrupted a revolutionary experiment in freedom exemplified by two classical composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler.
For decades, liberals have hoped for the de-Christianization of the American Right. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Michel Houellebecq’s chronicles of modern discontent have made him one of the most renowned writers of the century as well as a far-right prophet. Yet liberalism’s fiercest critic still hasn’t found his alternative future.
American evangelicals have spent millions exporting Christian conservatism to Africa.
The overseas wing of Narendra Modi’s paramilitary organization is raking in members, dollars, and influence around the globe.
The promise of digitization in Africa is a ruse.
Colombia recently discovered mass graves in a 150-year-old cemetery in the city of Cúcuta. The bodies, many of which were smuggled in during this century, reveal connections between right-wing militias, business, and the state.
The global market is scrambling to extract Argentine and Chilean lithium. Argentine president Javier Milei has unleashed a frenzy of corporate profit, while Chile’s Gabriel Boric is demanding that his country get its fair share.
Indonesia’s new president has a gruesome track record of human rights violations and hostility to democracy. But a slick campaign successfully presented him as a harmless grandpa.
In the 1970s, American mercenaries traveled to Angola and Rhodesia, seized by racist, anti-communist dreams and delusions of grandeur.
At the height of the Rhodesian Bush War, American mercenaries advertised their forces in the magazine Soldier of Fortune.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Young women overwhelmingly support Kamala Harris.
“National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles” contains ten guiding ideals for the New Right.
We asked scholar Dylan Riley what to read about our political foes.