The Rod Dreher Reality Show Is Hard to Look Away From
Following every juicy, unhinged twist and turn of Rod Dreher’s writing is trash TV for leftist intellectuals.
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Ilhan Omar Should Wear Her Expulsion From the House Foreign Affairs Committee as a Badge of Honor
Ilhan Omar has been kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The move is a backhanded acknowledgment by her enemies of her unusual effectiveness as a critic of the hypocrisies of US foreign policy.
J. D. Vance Is Wrong. Donald Trump Was No Antiwar President.
J. D. Vance, the faux-populist senator from Ohio, says that Donald Trump “kept the peace” as president. He has a short memory.
After Independence, Algeria Launched an Experiment in Self-Managing Socialism
After the end of French colonial rule, Algeria’s first government began to promote workers’ self-management in the “Mecca of Revolution.” But a backlash by conservative elements led to a military coup that established the regime still in power today.
Israel Is Threatening to Turn Iran Into Another Ukraine
Israel’s air strikes on Iran highlight the risk that Israeli bellicosity and Biden administration fecklessness could combine to produce a disastrous regional war in the Middle East.
CUNY Is the People’s University. Austerity Is Killing It.
The City University of New York is the crown jewel of the city’s once-robust welfare state, a vital resource for working-class New Yorkers. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul are starving it.
Big Pharma Is Obscenely Jacking Up the Prices of Publicly Funded COVID Vaccines
With pharma giant Moderna planning to quintuple the price it charges for its COVID vaccines — developed using taxpayer dollars — the case for nationalizing an out-of-control drug industry has never been stronger.
There’s No Such Thing as a “Self-Made Man”
The bootstraps narrative is near and dear to Americans’ hearts. But it’s a fiction, one that obscures complex relationships of interdependence and generates a culture of self-blame. It’s time to bust the myth for good.
France Won’t Accept Emmanuel Macron’s Attack on Pensions
Emmanuel Macron plans to raise France’s retirement age — but this Tuesday, well over a million people mobilized against him. One of the biggest social movements in years, it has a chance to deal a decisive blow to attacks on welfare.
Never Forget the Victims of Grenfell
On June 14, 2017, 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in London. Peter Apps’s Show Me the Bodies is the best account of the tragedy and an unsparing indictment of the disregard for working-class lives that made it possible.
You Can Thank George W. Bush’s War on Terror for Donald Trump
The Bush administration’s war on terror meted out unthinkable violence in the Middle East while imposing an atmosphere of repression and nativism at home. It was the perfectly malignant petri dish for helping produce Donald Trump.