“No matter the outcome of this war, one result is already clear: The United States is more isolated in the world than ever before.”
—Sylvia Taschka on the Trump administration abandoning even the pretense of democratic idealism.
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Reflecting on José Clemente Orozco’s series of frescoes at The New School, Xavier Moyssén Álvarez asks: Without the presence of students and lively debate, can the mural’s dynamic symmetry be activated in the way that Orozco intended?
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“Strong parties once provided individuals with a sense of belonging and refuge from the loneliness of modernity.” Austin Tannenbaum reviews Anton Jäger’s newest book, Hyperpolitics, documenting neoliberalism’s erosion of the public sphere.
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In their new book, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff analyze the world’s richest person as representative of a new political-economic model. In a conversation with L. Zhang, the authors explore the future implications of “Muskism.” @harpercollins.bsky.social
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In an interview with Colette Estelle, author Giada Scodellaro discusses her inspirations for Ruins, Child, including jazz vocals, landscape design for shared space, and the immediacy of cinema. @ndbooks.bsky.social
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Jeffrey C. Isaac explores how Jeffrey C. Goldfarb’s intellectual projects and relationship with Polish dissident Adam Michnik inform his dedication to “the radical center.”
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“Asserting that gray is beautiful offers a tool against absolutism—of regimes, institutions, and individuals that attack democracy with lies, and of black-and-white solutions.”
–Irit Dekel on Jeff Goldfarb’s latest book on democracy
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Natasha Lennard and Adam Tooze discuss the current energy crisis, its long history, and the global forces shaping the future of energy. @adamtooze.bsky.social @natashalennard.bsky.social
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“Rubio invokes Dante as a totem of Western excellence, but in a predictable irony, fails to realize that he summons a poet who indicts the very rhetorical mode in which Rubio operates.”
—Daniel DiMassa on Marco Rubio’s Dante-inspired rhetorical turn
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In Julia Foulkes’s playful imagining of the internal dialogue of José Clemente Orozco’s New School mural, revolutionaries butt heads and shout from the walls, hashing out decades-old spats.
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