The Big Data firm Palantir spent years developing lethal military tech. Now it’s leading a transformation in Silicon Valley, with tech giants abandoning their progressive posturing to join the battle for American military supremacy.
Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.
From brands commissioning immersive installations at prestigious art fairs to hedge funds transforming artworks into stock-like financial instruments, the line between art and capital is blurrier than ever.
The Republican Party’s descent into chaos wasn’t Donald Trump’s doing. After successfully beating back the labor movement, the capitalist class became too disorganized to restrain the monster it created.
The writer Yukio Mishima, who took his own life fifty years ago today, remains one of modern Japan’s most important cultural figures. Mishima’s eccentric and contradictory political stances have also gained him a devoted following on the international far right.
The avant-garde pop star Grimes has made a heel turn away from left-wing politics toward the Silicon Valley libertarianism of her ex Elon Musk. She calls herself “a bit of a socialist, but not economically.” Let’s just call her a manic pixie dream capitalist.
Speculation isn’t the cause of our great stagnation — it’s how the system tries to outrun it.
Some of the most over-the-top apartments in New York City are owned — and left empty — by überwealthy foreign nationals.
We surveyed over a thousand young people across the anglophone world to get a sense of their views on politics and culture.
Syriza is the Left's best chance at success in a generation. But for socialists, the hard part starts after election day.
Erik Olin Wright on class, socialism, and the meaning of Marxism.
The Finnish welfare state is being eroded, and the far right has gained momentum. As the country turns one hundred, what's happened to Finland?
New "soda tax" measures show just how narrow the liberal vision has become.
What Gramsci can tell us about the relationship between fascism and liberalism — and the rise of Donald Trump.
The Second Amendment isn't the only problem — it's our whole premodern Constitution.
How Breitbart News rose on the darkest of money to hijack the conservative media — and how liberals helped them do it.
On Lana Lokteff, the women of the alt-right, and the feminization of fascism.
For a few brief weeks in France, not just a government but an entire system was called into question.
Politics in Central Europe are deadlocked between the neoliberal center and the ethnonationalist right. Can Slovenia’s left break past both?