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In the Comfort of Apocalypse
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (263+ words) August 20, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 70 The distance between them is not only intellectual but also political. Snyder became one of Donald Trump’s most insistent critics and a vocal advocate for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s aggression, starting with the annexation of Crimea…...
Obfuscations of Populism
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (54+ words) August 20, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 70 Hans Kundnani is an Open Society Foundations Ideas Workshop Fellow and a Visiting Professor of Practice in the European Institute at the London School of Economics. A Rebuttal to Morozov The Ideas Letter is published fortnightly…...
The Thesis of Political Capitalism
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (128+ words) August 20, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 70 It is useful first to discuss the general impact of political capitalism on the labor share of income, and then to analyze more closely the structure of inequality among wage earners themselves. Putting these two processes…...
Easy Come, Easy Go
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (112+ words) July 23, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 69 That victory never quite took place, as can be seen from the fact that wherever cities were constructed that did look like this, they remain enduringly controversial. There is a place where every generation for the…...
Into the Voids
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (137+ words) Our musical selection for Issue 69 takes us back to the late eighteenth century and the overture of Luigi Cherubini’s Médée. I have been on a Medea kick of late, reading the original Euripides and watching the Pasolini film with Maria…...
The Contradictions of Giorgia Meloni
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (313+ words) July 23, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 69 Meloni built her party and her profile during a decade in which Italy, post-Berlusconi, cycled rapidly through various political options, all of which promised and failed to deliver a radical break from the status quo. The…...
Froth, Fury, and the Rise of the New Right
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (169+ words) July 23, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 69 This may be the dawn of a new political age. A novel brand of right-wing politics is challenging the liberal orthodoxy of the last eight decades and changing the very craft of politics. Over the years…...
The Communist Mystique
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (199+ words) July 9, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 68 Already in 1990s Russia, there was a whole cottage industry of post-Soviet excavation, represented most notably perhaps by the inimitable Leonid Parfenov, whose multi-part documentary The Other Day: Our Era, which ran on the then-still-independent NTV, captured…...
Die Groß Chill
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (65+ words) July 9, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 68 I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Peter Kuras is a writer and translator. He holds a PhD in Germanic Studies from Princeton and contributes to Der Freitag. Welcome to…...
Hammer and Ballot
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (119+ words) July 9, 2026 | The Ideas Letter 68 The term Eurocommunism, however, was a misnomer since the New Way (also called neocommunism at the time) had proponents around the world. The Japanese Communist Party had long supported a similar position, and the communist parties…...