“For everything that happened on October 7, for every person who was killed on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die.” (Aharon Haliva, former IDF intelligence chief) How can war crimes become an avowed strategy?
Inverted Totalitarianism: Antecedents and Precedents
Democracy is threatened by the inverted form of totalitarianism resulting from the free-market ideology. Is the Founding Fathers’ defiance against democracy an antecedent to its “management” today?
Demotic Moments
Democracy is, by nature, a work in progress, and Western history has had very few occurrences when the “demos” became a politically self-conscious actor. What do these moments teach us?
It Can Never Happen Here
Achieving a revolution often seems hopeless for people living under oppressive regimes. Drawing key lessons from his own experience, Srdja Popovic shows that this can be done by everyone, everywhere.
The Dynamics of the Archaic
Since the Ronald Reagan years, there is objective collusion in U.S. politics between religious archaism and market fundamentalism. How did this dynamic come to be and what makes it so powerful?