Noah Kulwin

Jan 1, 2025 | screenslate.com | Noah Kulwin

The Brutalist does not open with its eponymous architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody). Instead, the movie’s first and final moments are with Zsófia (Raffey Cassidy), Tóth’s young niece. In the film’s overture, Zsófia faces the camera while being badgered by a Hungarian border officer who concludes his spiel with the question that more or less animates the entire film: “What is your true home?

Mar 20, 2024 | znetwork.org | Brendan James |Noah Kulwin |Daniel Denvir

The failure to reckon with the people and the politics that made the Iraq War happen is one of the most tragic and significant oversights in recent history. To understand where we are today, in terms of both domestic politics and global affairs, we must understand the US invasion of Iraq — what led to it, which actors were strengthened by it, who suffered and for what purpose, and how it remade the world in its grisly image.

Mar 20, 2024 | jacobin.com | Noah Kulwin |Brendan James

Interview by Daniel Denvir The failure to reckon with the people and the politics that made the Iraq War happen is one of the most tragic and significant oversights in recent history. To understand where we are today, in terms of both domestic politics and global affairs, we must understand the US invasion of Iraq — what led to it, which actors were strengthened by it, who suffered and for what purpose, and how it remade the world in its grisly image.

Dec 8, 2023 | newstatesman.com | Noah Kulwin

Now that he is dead, perhaps the record of Henry Kissinger will allow for a little honesty. Rather than a master strategist, Dr K was an improviser. His Weimar worldliness masked racist beliefs (“Indians are bastards”), and those around him observed how his sophisticated-sounding Old World accent only thickened over the years despite fleeing Nazi Germany as a teenager in 1938.

Oct 24, 2023 | thebaffler.com | Noah Kulwin

The speed at which events have proceeded is difficult to convey. After fifteen-plus years of political stasis, Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel—comprising both effective strikes against military targets and violent killings of civilians—has upended a geopolitical consensus that the world believed was calcifying. In fact, it was cracking. In the weeks since, Israel has ordered the evacuation of its southern towns and settlements in advance of an expected ground invasion of Gaza.