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4 days ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition Details For Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and other figures on today’s far right, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien have become a cultural touchstone. Pity they don’t understand the first thing about them. In the annals of English literature, certain lines of criticism have left a lasting sting.
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1 week ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
The media and education system have tried to erase their legacies, but some of the world’s greatest artists, leaders, and thinkers were—and are—firmly on the Left. History, as the old cliché goes, is written by the victors. In practice, this tends to mean history is written by people with money—the victors in our current economic system.
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3 weeks ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
The “Bible of journalism” claims to be a neutral arbiter of style. But its rules are political, and their tepid liberalism only helps to maintain the status quo. You don’t get far in the world of journalism without learning to use the Associated Press Stylebook. Often the “Bible of journalism,” the reference book is used in newsrooms around the United States, from the to to the of hundreds of daily and weekly papers, including USA Today.
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4 weeks ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
The serial scammer and ex-Representative is heading to prison. But can we really call this justice when far worse people are walking freely around the halls of power? For George Santos, it’s the end of the road. Last month, the former Representative was sentenced to 87 months in prison—seven years, plus a quarter of one—on charges of identity theft and wire fraud, to which he’d pleaded guilty last August.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
Two new documentaries tell very different stories about the campus protest movement for Palestine. In “October 8,” we’re told the protests are cesspools of antisemitic hate. But in “The Encampments,” we learn just how wrong that is. Last month, two very different documentaries about the ongoing protest movement for Gaza and its people debuted in U.S. theaters.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 Jan/Feb Details Her face is found on everything from gift-shop calendars to novelty tube socks. But Frida Kahlo was an anti-capitalist revolutionary, and that's how she should be remembered. It was October 2017, and Theresa May was at the midpoint of her deeply awful tenure as Britain’s prime minister. Like every British prime minister from 2010 to 2024, May was a member of the Conservative Party.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
He wants to “own” Gaza and Greenland, and he treats immigrants like tenants he can evict at will. The rent-seeking class created Trump, and now he’s governing as America's landlord in chief. By now, a vast amount of time and energy has been spent examining all the ways in which Donald Trump is bad for America and the world.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson
In the United States, wealthy individuals like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are allowed to dominate the country’s politics and economy. But there is another way. In the United States today, it’s pretty obvious that billionaires run the show. There are 13 of them in Donald Trump’s administration right now, the most in American history.
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2 months ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Greg Jackson |Etienne Toussaint |Ciara Moloney
In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today. Have you heard the news? My people, the White Male Writers, are vanishing. It’s a terrible situation.
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2 months ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Stephen Prager |Ciara Moloney
From Reddit to the New York Times and TMZ, there’s an ongoing effort to squash the wave of popular anger at for-profit healthcare that Luigi Mangione represents. It’s been almost four months since the assassination of Brian Thompson, the late and unlamented CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Since Thompson was gunned down in front of a Hilton hotel in Manhattan, the American public has been captivated by the case—and by the alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione.
