K. A. Wilson

Nov 18, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson |K. A. Wilson

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 Sept/Oct Details A disturbing number of consumer products have historic ties to the Third Reich. Why have these companies been allowed to stay in business? Did you know that every time you walk through a big retail store, the ghosts of dead Nazis stare at you from the shelves? It’s true. They’re in the soda aisle, peeking out from between the cans and bottles.

Aug 5, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson |Alex Skopic |K. A. Wilson

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 May/June Details The imperial mentality sanctions some of the worst imaginable crimes in the name of progress, enlightenment, and civilization. Sometime in my early childhood, I saw the 1964 film Zulu. For years afterward, I remained captivated by its scenes of red-coated British soldiers fighting thousands of spear-wielding Zulu warriors.

Apr 15, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Andrew Ancheta |Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson |K. A. Wilson

In his examination of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies, the late anthropologist David Graeber argues that superhero comics are essentially fascist. This analysis is based on the power relations involved: comics, Graeber says, represent an anarchic universe, where the only real laws are the ones created “on the basis of force.” He might have added that they also play a role in socialization. Comics teach budding members of society what to expect of the world outside their doors.

Apr 1, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | K. A. Wilson

About a century ago, a German schoolteacher published a book that reshaped European intellectual history. The schoolteacher’s name was Oswald Spengler, and the book was his magnum opus: The Decline of the West. Spengler’s thesis was that Western civilization is the victim of its own success. Most Western countries had achieved unprecedented political freedom due to representative democracy and immense material prosperity thanks to free-market capitalism.

Apr 3, 2023 | currentaffairs.org | James Bosco |Nathan J. Robinson |K. A. Wilson

What gulfs between him and the seraphim!   Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him  Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? poet and Staten Island resident Edwin Markham Staten Island, the “forgotten borough,” has always stood apart from the rest of New York City, both geographically and politically. The only borough to vote for Donald Trump (in both 2016 and 2020), Staten Island has long been a red island in the blue sea, voting Republican in 11 of the last 14 presidential elections.