[email protected] on the Corporate Thriller; Ivan Krastev on Orbán; two new books on Italian Elite Theory www.unpopularfront.news/p/corporate-...

Hungary and the cause of democracy; Buckley's myth persists; a history of Republics and Republicans www.unpopularfront.news/p/hungry-hun...

I thought the vaunted fact checkers would catch this!

cc @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

I've finished "The Infernal Triangle: How America Got this Way." Farewell to the 5-book project that consumed some 30 years, over half my life! For the nonce, writing deadline-free on this Substack. First 50 subs get signed books or personal Zoom greetings. PAY ME!!! rickperlstein.substack.com

Max Read, Maya Vinokour, and I discuss the "Dark Enlightenment" at Villa Albertine.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/dark-enlig...

latest episode of my politics show with @lioneltrolling.bsky.social is up. we talk supreme court and iran. www.patreon.com/posts/154882...

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's flight with Curtis LeMay.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/king-of-th...

Please consider a paid subscription to Unpopular Front — my taxes are truly insane. www.unpopularfront.news

The attack on birthright citizenship is the Geistesgehalt—the spiritual content—of the MAGA revolution. www.unpopularfront.news/p/birthright...

It's troubling to reflect that Habermas is ancestor to not one, but two lineages, on the techno-reactionary right.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/habermass-...

The text of my lecture yesterday at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. A special thank you to @stevenklein.bsky.social for the generous invitation! www.unpopularfront.news/p/why-the-cl...

Great turnout for John Ganz in London and excellent discussion of Iran, the conservative movement, and the future of MAGA

Natasha Stagg on the Banality of Epstein; the best discussions on the war (IMHO); Hans Kohn's disillusionment with Zionism www.unpopularfront.news/p/perspectiv...

new episode of the politics pod where me and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social have a very spirited discussion of the war in Iran. www.patreon.com/posts/unclea...

The Trumpist intellectuals wake up.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/grand-delu...

Looking back on Habermas.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

Our first AI war.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/command-sh...

probably still pretty boring

Correction to yesterday's newsletter.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/a-correction

Have to issue a somewhat embarrassing correction to my newsletter this AM. I included a "translation" of the poet Hafiz that turns out to be no such thing; it's an interpretation done by an American poet who is not a Persian reader and claims to be channeling Hafiz's spirit.

Ghost World: I thought those girls were hilarious and cool. Then watched it recently and was like damn they are insanely mean.

watch here! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

going live on substack w/ @lioneltrolling.bsky.social at 2

volcano in progress

If Jamelle is a Nazi collaborator, call me Johnny Goebbels I guess

MFA

The gyre widens.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-al...

FWIW.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/testing-th...

seems pretty likely that the DoD/Anthropic showdown is being driven by katie miller crashing out over the anthropic constitution using the phrase "classical liberal democracy"

They keep doing the same thing over and over.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/i-told-you...

Tom Paulin's Hazlitt book; Barbara McClay on Wuthering Heights; James Duesterberg on Nick Land www.unpopularfront.news/p/hazlitts-c...

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

I went on "Unclear and Present Danger" (w @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) to talk about GI Jane, American discomfort with women in combat, and how hot Viggo Mortensen was in those little khaki shorts. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

Polybius seems to think Supreme Court Ruling is important

In my latest chat with @maxread.info, I share my hangover curee secrets with Max, who had three martinis the night before.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-wi...

There is still much to learn from Jesse Jackson.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-age-of...

Bluesky gave me an adult content warning for a Titian painting of Venus

Remembering Chip Berlet; Poland's perilous democracy; do progressives need the Church? www.unpopularfront.news/p/chip-berle...

London! March 26th! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-t...

Stancilgrad.

Very excited we will be hosting a lecture by the one and only John Ganz - info and sign up here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-the-cl...

Trumpism promised a return of macho producerism, but the only growing sector is care work.— t.co/9OGNvFPeFn

Edgar Allan Poe's Science Fiction; Lord Byron and the Luddites; Visconti's ‘Conversation Piece.’— www.unpopularfront.news/p/poes-sci-f...

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

this is how the British press talked about Mussolini lol

New Polybius score — not a big change

No it's not

I wrote about some recent historical parallels. What's good and bad in them.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/historical...

They have achieved 10 to 1 force superority over ICE