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  • Enzo Traverso – Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

    Reviewed by Marc Di Sotto Comment on this review No commentsView comments About the reviewer Marc Di Sotto completed his PhD in 2015 and is currently teaching at the University of Edinburgh. … More Traverso sets out the argument of Left-Wing Melancholia against the background of a political landscape thrown into disarray in the aftermath…

  • Lessons From Singapore: Embracing Globalism

    Posted on Sunday, Aug 2, 2026 4:00AM by Eric Feigenbaum by Eric Feigenbaum There are few acts that express a belief in globalism like phasing out agriculture. From the city-state’s independence in1965 until 1990, Singapore reduced its agricultural land from 13,160 (roughly 22% of the island’s then-size) to 1,500 hectares (roughly 1% of Singapore’s area)…

  • If You Can Read This, You’re Probably Illiterate

    The difference between reading words and understanding your own civilization Josh Centers and Hannah Centers Feb 26, 2026 You are reading these words right now, processing them without difficulty, and so you might assume you are literate. You went to school. You graduated. Maybe you went to college. You can read a menu, follow a…

  • When LBJ Admitted to Killing a President

    The architecture of surrender and its longstanding implications for U.S. foreign policy TMH Sep 30, 2021 In the film All the Way, the Lyndon B. Johnson character is shown signaling to record one of his phone calls using a Dictaphone machine. While comprising a small piece of the film, in real life LBJ recorded over…

  • This century’s The Godfather: How Brady Corbet made the staggering film The Brutalist

    https://static.themebuilder.aws.arc.pub/irishtimes/1647534191733.svg Aged 36, the auteur has already made three of the most remarkable films of the 21st century – including the one tipped to win this year’s best-picture Oscar Tara Brady Sat Jan 25 2025 – 05:15•7 MIN READ When Brady Corbet arrived in Venice last autumn, for the city’s film festival, he had been…

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