Commentaries

NATO is a manifestation of the metamodern simulacrum that is simultaneously and perpetually at war and not at war with Russia. Postmodernism was the rejection of universal truth, acknowledging that there are shades of gray and conflicting human perceptions of truth. Metamodernism insists upon a universal truth, which is defined by the regime, and means … Read more

Comparing the sophistication of Russian propaganda to US propaganda is like comparing a toddler playing with marbles to a thousand supercomputers playing 3D chess for a trillion years to map out every possible move. There is no comparison at all. The more I think about the topic, the more I am astonished how literally every … Read more

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

War propaganda often says more about the accuser than the adversary it’s aimed at. For many years western media spun a grim and extremely specific fairy tale of Soviet warfighting; the evil communist regime rounds up its own population into padlocked cattle cars and sends them into pointless human wave attacks against the stoic “I … Read more

The 1953 romemantic comedy Roman Holiday was filmed on the actual streets of Rome. It’s a fun little story not trying to convey any particular lesson, but in today’s world feels like a strange, impossible fantasy.