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Elon Musk for the Not-So-Perplexed
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s “Muskism” is a much-needed critical study of the world’s first trillionaire. But Musk is no enigma—and no mere symptom…
 • Victor Shammas
One Giant Leap for Oligarchy
When a trillionaire controls essential infrastructure, democracy suffers.
 • Victor Shammas
The Trillion-Dollar Vassal
How Trump 2.0, Israel’s Gaza war, and Norway's two-trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund converged in a firestorm of finance, geopolitics, and genocide.
 • Victor Shammas
Dan Wang's "Breakneck": A Lesson in Disavowed Hawkishness
Like Klein and Thompson's Abundance, Dan Wang wants the U.S. to build. But Breakneck isn't about raising living standards—it's about preparing for war.
 • Victor Shammas
Harris’s 107 Days and the Missing Reckoning: Gaza
Early coverage of Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir, 107 Days, has been unfair. Yet Harris still won't adequately deal with the Biden administration's…
 • Victor Shammas
The Poverty of Abundance
Abundance liberalism won't defeat fascism.
 • Victor Shammas
Review: Not Enough Fight
'Fight' by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes offers a gripping account of the 2024 presidential election, placing blame on both Biden and Harris for…
 • Victor Shammas
The Dangers of TACO
Trump Always Chickens Out, or TACO, was a playful way of criticizing Trump's early second-term policies. But goading Trump into taking a firmer stance…
 • Victor Shammas
Shock and Subordination: The First 100 Days of Trump 2.0
Trump's desire for power seems limitless. But people are beginning to wake up to the real-world consequences of his policies.
 • Victor Shammas
Trump’s Nordic Encounter
The Global South knows what US imperialism means. The Nordic countries are beginning to catch on.
 • Victor Shammas
Between MAGA and a Hard Place
Two books—one on Steve Bannon and the global far right, the other on life at a Chinese university—reveal a world increasingly riven by competing…
 • Victor Shammas
The Great American Decoupling
Under Trump 2.0, the U.S. is decoupling from the world—and the world from it. Both are worse off for it.
 • Victor Shammas
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