Film How The Matrix made us In their 1999 film, the Wachowskis glimpsed the future of our digital lives. More remarkably, they shaped them. By Samuel Earle
Long reads How Albert Camus’s The Plague became the defining book of the coronavirus crisis By Samuel Earle
How white supremacists around the world are being connected Deepening lines of communication and funding are creating the kind of loose, nefarious networks that once haunted the far-right’s… By Samuel Earle
Heidegger, the homesick philosopher Once discredited by his association with Nazism, Martin Heidegger is enjoying a posthumous revival. So what is it about… By Samuel Earle
In search of lost time: how nostalgia broke politics In 2017, the word “déclinisme” entered France’s Larousse dictionary, describing the belief that a state of decay is sweeping… By Samuel Earle
The terrifying rehabilitation of Nazi scholar Carl Schmitt On 29 July 2018, the anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s birth, Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini posted on Twitter “tanti… By Samuel Earle