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3 weeks ago | 
thebaffler.com | Ranbir Sidhu |Astra Taylor |Quinn Slobodian |Jessa Crispin
A year ago, I took a friend visiting from California to a casual mixer at a rooftop bar in Athens, Greece, where I live. The mixer was arranged by the local chapter of Democrats Abroad, a get-out-the-vote organization for expat Americans in Europe. With drinks in hand and the sun setting on the Parthenon in the distance, we pushed ourselves into the knot of Americans at the far end of the patio.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
newstatesman.com | Quinn Slobodian
Elon Musk is a shapeshifter. One moment he speaks in gentle and almost disarmingly naive terms about the need to live with curiosity and compassion, and gets lost in the details of orbits and thrusters. In the next he stokes racist anger through inflammatory posts, recently branding a member of the UK government a “rape genocide apologist”.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thebaffler.com | Alex Cocotas |Quinn Slobodian |Zachariah Webb
Have you heard that Berlin is dead? I hear it often. I’ve even heard myself say it. “Berlin’s dead!” I announce to my sub as we both sadly snort lines of ketamine off my sub’s sub, who we occasionally use as a piece of furniture—an armoire, a Biedermeier settee—because this is Berlin. Our pupils are like convex pennies. It is a Tuesday afternoon. It is a phrase, alas, that I am wont to use. At Berghain for the twenty-fourth weekend in a row: this is Berlin.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Bridget Read |Christopher Benfey |Jon Allsop |Quinn Slobodian
Rozina Ali“Why would you place your faith in somebody who instituted a so-called Muslim Ban?” President Barack Obama asked at a campaign rally in Wisconsin earlier this month. In the weeks running up to the elections, that question was repeatedly posed to Muslim and Arab American leaders who had publicly stated they would not endorse Kamala Harris for president.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Jon Allsop |Bridget Read |Quinn Slobodian |Christopher Benfey
Rozina Ali • Christopher Benfey • Quinn Slobodian • Walter M. Shaub Jr. • Bridget Read • Jon Allsop“Why would you place your faith in somebody who instituted a so-called Muslim Ban?” President Barack Obama asked at a campaign rally in Wisconsin earlier this month. In the weeks running up to the elections, that question was repeatedly posed to Muslim and Arab American leaders who had publicly stated they would not endorse Kamala Harris for president.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
nuso.org | Julieta Zelicovich |Quinn Slobodian |LUIS FERNÁNDEZ |Luis Fernandez |Analía Goldentul
Viaje a los orígenes del multiverso libertario octubre 2024 En su libro The Individualists [Los individualistas], Matt Zwolinski y John Tomasi reconstruyen los orígenes del movimiento libertario yendo más allá de las referencias clásicas de Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick, Murray Rothbard y Ludwig von Mises.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
zeit.de | Quinn Slobodian
Hierzulande kennt kaum jemand Murray Rothbard. Dabei hat dessen Idee einer "Paläo-Koalition" nicht nur Javier Milei und Donald Trump geprägt, sondern auch die AfD. Zusammenfassung Zusammenfassen Mit seinem Amtsantritt als argentinischer Präsident im Dezember 2023 verschrieb Javier Milei seinem Land einen Hybrid aus ökonomischer Schocktherapie, sozialem Konservatismus und Autoritarismus.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
nuso.org | Patrick Iber |John Nichols |Quinn Slobodian |Mariano Schuster
El jueves a las ocho de la noche, dos horas antes de que Kamala Harris saliera al escenario para cerrar la Convención, los pasillos del United Center de Chicago estaban repletos de gente y rumores. Los periodistas se apilaban en los accesos de seguridad para acceder al piso, donde estaban sentados los más de 4.000 delegados demócratas, y que ahora aparecía vedado, obligando a buena parte de la prensa a seguirlo desde las plateas. Entonces comenzó el cotilleo.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Quinn Slobodian
Last December, one of the world’s wealthiest men, with public pretensions to being an intellectual, took the stage at a hard-right festival in Rome named after a character from a 1980s children’s fantasy film, and delivered an astounding streak of falsehoods. The world’s population will be “one tenth of its current size” within three generations, he claimed. In fact, it is predicted to rise to ten billion. The birth rate, he said, “is maybe half the replacement rate”.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Quinn Slobodian |Tim Barton
By Quinn SlobodianPublished by PenguinREVIEW BY TIM BARTON‘Americans are deeply sceptical of once well-regarded institutions such as universities, the media and the public health system, and do not trust the functioning of democratic politics. The economy is characterised by entrenched inequality, and intense polarisation between the parties makes it all but impossible to address long-term problems such as climate change,’ says Eric Foner in the London Review of Books (4 July 2024).
