Ciara Moloney

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Ciara Moloney |Alex Skopic

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 Jan/Feb Details Trump is such a strange figure that it’s easy to treat him like a cartoon. 'The Apprentice' shows his evil as fundamentally, and terrifyingly, human. You probably didn’t see The Apprentice. No, not the Donald Trump reality show—you definitely caught an episode or two of that on NBC over its decade-plus run.

Jan 18, 2025 | currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Ciara Moloney

Robert Eggers’ vampire film would be easy to interpret as a right-wing, anti-immigrant manifesto. But dig a little deeper, and you realize that the rich are the real bloodsuckers. Nosferatu is both a very new film and a very old film, and that contradiction is what makes it so fascinating.

Dec 5, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Nina Turner |Briahna Joy Gray |Ciara Moloney

In his new documentary, Matt Walsh sets out to prove that racism isn’t a serious problem in America. He accidentally proves the opposite. It’s a bad sign for the American film industry, and for American culture in general, that Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? is a box-office success. The film is Walsh’s second feature-length documentary—following What is a Woman?, his diatribe against transgender people from 2022—and it’s the from the right-wing Daily Wire media network to get a theatrical release.