Readers of The Theory Brief will know that UK politician Nigel Farage’s far-right politics of division and polarization are the opposite of everything this newsletter stands for. As Farage’s Reform UK party surges in the polls, this week’s Bloomberg interview is important for getting us to think more about Farage’s potential political vulnerabilities—including a cozy relationship with the fossil-fuel industry, which research suggests voters dislike; corruption within the ranks of Reform; and Farage’s tax avoidance.
Bloomberg/YouTube: Nigel Farage on Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show
Below are some additional things I’ve been reading, watching, and thinking about lately (be sure to follow me on Bluesky to receive links on a regular basis):
WSJ: Exclusive | How U.A.E. Arms Bolstered a Sudanese Militia Accused of Genocide
The Guardian: UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
Al Jazeera: Massacre in el-Fasher: What’s happening in Sudan right now?
Reuters: On the rise in Germany, far-right AfD deepens ties to Trump administration
National Immigration Project: ICE Deports Man Claiming U.S. Citizenship to Laos Despite Federal Court Order
Reuters: Europe’s top rights court rejects climate challenge against Norway’s oil
NY Times: Cuomo Earned Almost $5 Million Consulting. He Won’t Name His Clients
FT: Freed Palestinian prisoners recount beatings and abuse in Israeli jails
Semafor: Nvidia CEO ‘proud and delighted’ to support Trump ballroom
Foreign Policy: Marco Filoni’s ‘The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève’ Review: Revisiting the Influential 20th-Century Thinker
JSTOR: Being, Time, and Politics: The Strauss-Kojève Debate on JSTOR
Financial Times: Catholic nationalists are on a collision course with the Vatican
Duke University Press (2021): Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank
Harvard University Press: The Highest Exam
Stanford University Press: Absolute Ethical Life |
Penn State Press: Enemies, a Love Story: Mizrahi-Arab-Ashkenazi Relations Since the Dawn of Zionism By Hillel Cohen
Columbia Journalism Review: The Interview Assassin
LA Review of Books: Pynchon’s Abundance
New Yorker: Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party
Critical Inquiry: Erin Graff Zivin reviews The Traces of Jacques Derrida’s Cinema
LSE Review of Books: What fuels far-right nationalism?
Rolling Stone: Kat Abughazaleh Indicted Over Chicago ICE Protest
LA Times: Chris Ponnet, priest who served the ill and opposed death penalty, dies - Los Angeles Times
Bloomberg: Starmer Mulls Europe Rethink in Search for Way to Counter Farage
Washington Post: Can anyone stop Trump’s teardown of the East Wing?
The Baffler: Belittled Magazine | Bruce Robbins: Thirty years after the Sokal affair
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Domination
Jacobin: Anglophone Liberal Socialism Meets Its Nordic Counterpart
YouTube: “We Will Not Bend”: Zohran Mamdani’s Historic Final Rally Speech Before NYC Election
