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  • War failed, talks failed—Washington’s blockade will fail too

    By Gary Wilson (Posted Apr 15, 2026) Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha  on April 13, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |  Empire, State Repression, Strategy, WarAmericas, Iran, Israel, Middle East, United StatesNewswire When the U.S. delegation walked out of the Islamabad talks on April 12 without an agreement, Washington moved at once to escalate. Trump announced that U.S. naval forces would impose a blockade on…

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  • Illiberal Forces at the Ballot

    India’s Election and the Modi Model: A Conversation with Christophe Jaffrelot Christophe Jaffrelot By illiberalism.org May 24, 2024 An original version of this interview was published in French at Le Grand Continent. Since April 19, and until June 1, the world’s most populous democracy is voting. How does Modi’s authoritarian power intend to remain at the helm of a…

  • How Does India See Its Muslim Population?

    Christophe Jaffrelot 2 hours ago A recent survey is revealing of a fair degree of anti-Muslim prejudice among Hindus. Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty .Every five years, the Lok Sabha elections offer a window to analyse the representation of the Muslim minority in the parliament of India. From that point of view, the 2024 elections have reconfirmed…

  • ‘She is living on in many hearts’ – Otto Frank on the legacy of his daughter’s diary

    ‘She is living on in many hearts’ – Otto Frank on the legacy of his daughter’s diary | Aeon Videos In this 1976 clip from the long-running BBC children’s show Blue Peter, the UK presenter Valerie Singleton travels to the now-famous Amsterdam house where the teenage Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution in a secret annex…

  • Adam Shatz – The author on Frantz Fanon, revolution, violence, and the psychology of oppression

    James Surowiecki More than sixty years after his death, Frantz Fanon’s work—with its keen and biting insights into the psychology of racial and colonial oppression and its radical critique of essentialist conceptions of identity—continues to feel startlingly of the moment. And Fanon’s short life, during which he played so many different roles (psychiatrist, revolutionary propagandist, existentialist…

  • Show Don’t Tell

       by Agnes Callard, Becca Rothfeld From “Should Writers Talk?,” a discussion that was held in January at the University of Chicago. agnes callard: One of the reasons you give for why writers shouldn’t talk is that you see writing as being more malleable, because conversation does not allow for revision or retraction. I found that surprising.…

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