Feudalism

In the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones the city of Kings Landing is sacked and razed by Daenarys Targaryen and her armies. Viewers were as stunned as Jon Snow as they watched the storys supposed heroine rain destruction upon the Lannister soldiers and …

Cuba, 2016(Ioanna Sakellaraki / Barcroft Im / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) Nor is it compatible with the Constitution Back in 2011, while covering Occupy Wall Street, I was accosted by a man wearing a large cardboard box. On this box, which he wore aroun…

A Christian fable or a Marxist allegory? A magical-realist myth or a political cry against neoliberalism (or feudalism, which produces the same catastrophe anyway)? Perhaps all of the above, perhaps Biblical references go well with everyday paganism -- espec…

PROTO Holly Herndon 4AD 10 May 2019 Spawn is a two-year-old choir singer, that is, she is an AI agent that has learned to mimic human vocals. For her third full-length PROTO, Holly Herndon features what she refers to as her "AI baby" as a part of her …

Annual awards hype tends to drive the perception that the Oscar is the highest award in the film community. But for countless filmmakers and cinephiles around the world, the Palme d’Or comes out ahead. Ever since 1955, the Cannes Film Festival has assembled a…

This is the best expression of the end-of-ideology "managerialism" theses of the Great Post-WWII Keynesian Boom— Les Trente Glorieuses. It is remarkably early: 1955. And it is 100% correct that those who tried to apply a pre-WWI socialist or a Leninist frame …

Game of Thrones Will Never Learn How to Deal With Rape Game of Thrones Has Finally Admitted It Prefers Jon to Dany A Closer Look at Euron Greyjoys Big, Big Gun Game of Thrones TV Club: The One With the Starbucks Cup If youre tired of feeling like Game of…

Eric Hobsbawm was a historian and a Communist. The first pursuit brought him great success. When he died, in 2012, at the age of ninety-five, nearly all of his books were still in print, his writings had been translated into more than fifty languages, and he …

Peter Zarrow is a Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. On Sunday, May 4, 1919, some 3,000 students assembled at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to protest the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I.  Most were from China’s premier institution…

Economic inequality could be the signature issue for Democratsone that speaks to purple voters, progressives, and maybe even some current Trump supporters. But the Democrats dont seem to understand this. They need to decide if they are running as a party of g…