Wouter van de Klippe is a freelance journalist and writer based in Europe. He is particularly interested in organized labor, social and environmental justice, and social welfare states.
At tonight’s VP debate, two US military veterans, Tim Walz and J. D. Vance, will face off. Walz has a chance to stand up against the dangerous privatization of Veterans Affairs — which Biden has overseen and Trump and Vance are promising to push further.
We went to the Republican National Convention to better understand the strangest mainstream party in the world.
Donald Trump is a skilled comedian whose “gaffes” are often intended to be funny — and his appeal can’t be understood without this fact.
David Austin Walsh, a historian of American conservatism, talks to Jacobin about J. D. Vance, Project 2025, and the New Right’s political theory.
We read the criticism. But we’re not going to stop publishing the bullshit.
A travel guide for Kekistan.
Wyndham Lewis was perhaps the most talented English painter and novelist of the first half of the twentieth century. How did he become best known as a fascist?
Around 1947, McCarthyism hit Hollywood, just when it was starting to make hit films about the corruption and idiocy of American electoral politics.
Football ultras don’t just cheer for right-wingers on the pitch.
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.