Culture

Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness

Rob Urie July 6, 2026

Parallel Worlds: An Interview with Artist, Gaku Tsutaja

Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt July 5, 2026

Images of Surrender

Stephen F. Eisenman July 3, 2026

The Forgotten Brits Who Lived Among the Cherokee

Peter Bach July 3, 2026

Priapic Ambitions: Notes on George Washington

Jeffrey St. Clair July 3, 2026

Iran: The Veil, the Beard and the Bomb

M. Reza Behnam July 3, 2026

The Supreme Court Opens the Door to White Christian Only Government

Dean Baker July 3, 2026

Remembering Artists From Another Time: David Hockney

Richard Schulman July 3, 2026

Why Do Societies Normalize Harm to Children in War, Poverty and Public Policy?

Colin Greer - Reynard Loki July 3, 2026

Revolution by Grandma Continued: Take Back Your Imperfection!

Kim C. Domenico July 3, 2026

Mokka-Hits and Milk-Bar Dreams

David Yearsley July 3, 2026

Tow: Victims of a Heartless Society

Seth Sandronsky July 3, 2026

The Sexual Politics of Allen Ginsberg 

Jonah Raskin July 2, 2026

Adding to Failure: Amending Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban

Binoy Kampmark July 2, 2026

Biking Berlin, Walking Watkins Glen

David Yearsley June 26, 2026

I Am Not a “Pussy” and Never Was

Jonah Raskin June 26, 2026

Remembering Artists From Another Time: Andy Warhol

Richard Schulman June 26, 2026

Ritual, Power and the Weekend Arena

Gary M. Feinman June 24, 2026

Human Origins Destroys Core Fascist Mythology

Yann Perreau June 24, 2026

What Do the World Cup and Iran Deal Have in Common?

Zoltan Grossman June 22, 2026

My AI Comrade

Stephen F. Eisenman June 19, 2026

Juneteenth: The Day America Solved Racism by Taking A Day Off From Work

Lawrence Ware June 19, 2026

Buying a Reputation

David S. D’Amato June 19, 2026

Homage to Cockburn and Vidal

DOUG LORANGER June 19, 2026

From Hitler’s Olympics to Trump’s World Cup

Giorgos Mitralias June 18, 2026

The Mirror of Neolithic Art: How Çatalhöyük Confronts the Hubris of the Modernist Perspective

Erdem Denk June 12, 2026

“Can I Be Frank?” is the Most Important Show in New York Right Now

Laura Flanders June 9, 2026

On Seeing Will Self Again

Peter Bach June 5, 2026

Emperor of Iceland, Titan of the Tutu

David Yearsley June 5, 2026

Unfamiliar: the New World of Espionage

Jonah Raskin June 5, 2026

My Discovery of Howl!

Ed Sanders June 3, 2026

Ginsberg at 100

David Rosen June 2, 2026

Pentecostal Epic and Opera

David Yearsley May 29, 2026

Remembering Artists From Another Time: John Piper

Richard Schulman May 29, 2026

Photograph by Bob Turton. Find him on Instagram @bobturtonphotography

The Zany Survival of “The Physicists” Spoofs the Atomic Era and More

Ed Rampell May 24, 2026

It’s All About Image: Declining American Symbolic Power

Daniel Warner May 22, 2026

Up and Out on Ascension

David Yearsley May 22, 2026

Haydn’s “Sun” Quartets Light up Berlin

David Yearsley May 15, 2026

Fred Anderson, North American Writer

Ishmael Reed May 8, 2026

Long Live New Orleans and All of the Beauty Out There Like Her

Kathleen Wallace May 8, 2026

Bach and Bitcoin

David Yearsley May 8, 2026

Darkology and the Deep Roots of American Racism: A Conversation with Rhae Lynn Barnes

Richard Klin May 1, 2026

On Chuck Klosterman’s “Football”

Joshua Sperber May 1, 2026

Alexandre Dumas and His Revolutionary Novel “The Count of Monte Cristo”

Jonah Raskin May 1, 2026

Sound History

David Yearsley April 24, 2026

The Invisible Forest

Elliot Sperber April 23, 2026

The Etymology of 420

Fred Gardner April 20, 2026

NATO Yes, EU No:  Euro-Turkish Music in Berlin

David Yearsley April 17, 2026

Venice Restored

David Carrier April 17, 2026

Young Communists Grow Older

Paul Buhle April 13, 2026

Belshazzar in Berlin: Handel Writes on The Wall of the Comic Opera

David Yearsley April 3, 2026

Political Tinsel Town in the Mid-1970s

Seth Sandronsky April 3, 2026

Everything that Rises Must Converge: Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”

Jonah Raskin March 27, 2026

Is AI Born Biased?

Algernon Austin March 27, 2026

The Most Original Modernist Painting in Venice

David Carrier March 27, 2026

Searching for Hound Dog Taylor: a Chicago Blues Escapade

Jeffrey St. Clair March 25, 2026

Jessica Mitford and Me

Jonah Raskin March 24, 2026

Frantz Fanon, photo via Verso Books.

Rediscovering Fanon

Ed Rampell March 22, 2026

Letter From Skopje, North Macedonia

Matthew Stevenson March 20, 2026

Sound Police at the Oscars

David Yearsley March 20, 2026

Family Furnishings:  Sofa and Soundtrack in Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother

David Yearsley March 13, 2026

Thomas Crow’s Radical Political Art History

David Carrier March 13, 2026

Letter From Peć: The “Lost” Monasteries

Matthew Stevenson March 6, 2026

The Epstein Affair, Again: “What about the Victims?”

Stephen F. Eisenman February 27, 2026

Letter From Peja, Kosovo

Matthew Stevenson February 27, 2026

World of Art Dutch Painting

David Carrier February 27, 2026

In a Dark Wood with Don Giovanni: Mozart in Berlin

David Yearsley February 20, 2026

New Bio of Jessica Mitford Recalls Fine Old Conflict Over Civil Rights 

Steve Early February 19, 2026

Super Bowl Simulcast

David Yearsley February 13, 2026

“Tales of Ordinary Madness”: Warren Haynes, Charles Bukowski, and the Darkness of the American Dream

David Masciotra February 13, 2026

Is Heathcliff Jewish? Emily Brontë’s Revolutionary Novel of Repression and Reversals

Jonah Raskin February 13, 2026

An Epic About Capitalism and Detroit

Ron Jacobs February 13, 2026

A Face Like Yours: A Romanian-French Poet Speaks to Us from the Grave

Mark Ashwill February 13, 2026

Still from Voice of Hind Rajab.

Oscar-Nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab Leads the “Watermelon Wave” of Palestine Pictures

Ed Rampell February 8, 2026

Church Disruptions are Justified

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler February 3, 2026

Winter Woes: Dancing to Schubert in Berlin

David Yearsley January 30, 2026

“All That’s Left of You”: The Film That Arrived Too Late and Just in Time

Jamal Kanj January 22, 2026
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Immigrant Songs

David Yearsley January 16, 2026

Fire from Shadows: Tareq Baconi’s Memoir

Susie Day January 16, 2026

Sound Grammar: The Best Jazz Albums of 2025

Jeffrey St. Clair January 15, 2026

Sing a Song of $1.5 Trillion

David Yearsley January 9, 2026

To Each According to His Bank Account

Jan Ralske January 9, 2026

Mud, Poetry and Political Imagination

Julie Wark January 6, 2026

Leslie Groves press conference. Still from "Bombshell." Courtesy PBS.

Manufacturing Nuclear Consent

Ed Rampell January 4, 2026

The Rat Cage is NSPM-7: On Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5

John Kendall Hawkins January 1, 2026

Sound Grammar: the Best Albums of 2025

Jeffrey St. Clair December 30, 2025

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Director Talks Using Cinema as a Force Against Genocide

Alci Rengifo December 25, 2025

Cinema Beyond Cinemas: the Best Films of 2025

Jeffrey St. Clair December 24, 2025

Booked Up: The Best Books of 2025

Jeffrey St. Clair December 23, 2025

Guns and More Guns

Howard Lisnoff December 23, 2025

My Favorites of 2025

Joshua Frank December 19, 2025
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Read the Room

David Yearsley December 19, 2025

Still from "Palestine 36," courtesy Watermelon Pictures.

The Counter-Narrative: The Arab Revolt Onscreen

Ed Rampell December 14, 2025

Tis the Seasons: Midsummer in Midwinter With the Bard

David Yearsley December 12, 2025

Being an Artist in an Age of Blacklists and Boycotts

David Rovics December 12, 2025

Poet Anne Waldman’s Star Turn

Jonah Raskin December 12, 2025

The Line Between the Sacred and the Profane

Robert Lynch - Nicolas Lynch December 5, 2025

YouTube, aka the Biggest Platform on Earth, Has Deleted All My Albums

David Rovics December 5, 2025

In Praise of Art Collecting

David Carrier December 5, 2025

Phillis Wheatley: Genius, Poet, and Pioneer in the Face of Slavery

Vincent Carretta December 3, 2025