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Ari Aster and Lena Dunham, both 39, are two of the most celebrated millennial directors. But based on their latest productions—“Eddington” and “Too Much”—only one is keeping up with the times. New episode of @againstthepod with @juliadyost patreon.com/posts/134594500
This week's pro-crypto legislation has been justified in the name of stopping Central Bank Digital Currencies. But state-sponsored crypto, far from a defense against surveillance and control, is simply another way to impose it, explains Fabio Vighi: compactmag.com/article/why-cr…
Good piece about the fate of the post-left and also the broader challenges of public political thinking in the social media / podcast sphere compactmag.com/article/the-de…
"In opposition to this cultural wasteland, Clune makes use of—and often seems to deliberately warp the meaning of—music from Bach to Boston, and literature from Oscar Wilde’s Salomé to the 1982 fantasy novel Nifft the Lean." @valerie_reads in @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/a-ques…
“Political rhetoric is easily co-opted.” @MoustacheClubUS in @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/the-de…
A little-noted casualty of Trump's return to office was the "post-left," a small online faction which was already in its death throes. @MoustacheClubUS writes the post-left's postmortem, and explains why it matters: compactmag.com/article/the-de…
"The left-liberal moral mainstream pushes out certain potential allies by labeling them bigots at the slightest heterodoxy, but capital also punishes them if they attempt any serious anti-corporate activism." @MoustacheClubUS in @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/the-de…
"Looking back at the failure of the post-left, are there any lessons that can be learned? One is that rhetorical class radicalism is easy, but organizing around it is hard." @MoustacheClubUS in @compactmag_ compactmag.com/article/the-de…
“The post-left’s contrarian energy became an identity of its own.” Read Oliver Bateman's @MoustacheClubUS piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/the-de…
In conversation with @g_shullenberger, @AshleyAFrawley explains how eugenic thinking and practices emerge out of the crisis of liberalism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
Great new episode of Blame Theory feat. @g_shullenberger and @AshleyAFrawley podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
"To discuss the ending would be to ruin an excellent surprise. Suffice it to say that Clune is offering an original and strikingly contemporary metaphysics." Read Valerie Stivers's @valerie_reads review of Michael Clune's book in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/a-ques…
"Public faith in government accountability is fragile today. Not simply advocating for but actually delivering on immigration restriction is the surest way to preserve it." Read Darel E. Paul's @darelmass piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/how-th…
I wrote about Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ and its insights into 2025 as well as 2020: substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…
"Perhaps the real power operating behind the scenes has realized that a conspiracy theorist can offer just as useful a political front for achieving its aims as a soft-spoken progressive. Sound familiar?" Read @g_shullenberger's latest newsletter substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…
"I believe Aster is right to say we are “still living through” 2020—not least because up to now art has failed to offer us any means of making sense of it." @g_shullenberger in @compactmag_ substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…
Republicans are moving to ban central bank digital currencies. But the private digital currencies they’re promoting instead raise the same issues of surveillance and censorship, Fabio Vighi argues.
“The executive order did not end the digitization of money.” Read Fabio Vighi’s piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/why-cr…
