Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson welcomed prominent white nationalist Nick Fuentes onto the former Fox News hostās video podcast. As my colleague Kiera Butler described their conversation: Fuentes “made the case for the importance of Americans ‘to be pro-white,’ sang the praises of brutal Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, and bemoaned the problem of ‘organized Jewry […]
Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and now the American Revolution.
Everybodyās got their favorite newspaper or magazineāthe one they turn to first thing in the morning, breakfast fork in hand, for a look at whatās going on in the world. Noam Chomsky, famously, prefers the Financial Times, calling it āmore open, more free, often more criticalā because itās where the rich and powerful speak frankly to one another. Joan Didion praised the Berkeley Barb, the Open City, and the other āundergroundā papers of 1960s California as among āthe only American newspapers that do not leave me in the grip of a profound physical conviction that the oxygen has been cut off from my brain tissue, very probably by an Associated Press wire.ā Your own periodicals of choice might be the Detroit Free Press or Drop Site News, or if you have especially good taste, Current Affairs. But there are some papers I read regularly that are a little different from those. Almost nobody else in the United States reads them, but I think they tell us some important things about our country and the world, though probably not in the way their writers intend. You see, Iām a loyal reader of the Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times.
In its crackdown on pro-Palestine speech, Germany has normalized racism and state violence in a way that goes beyond any conflict abroad, reminding us this really is the country of the 1920s, again.