The Doomsday Machine
A new book asks us to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war. But is the persistent dread of extermination enough to guide a new movement for abolition?
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The Second British Revolution
In the years leading up to World War I, Britain was rocked by an unprecedented upsurge of labor militancy. As James Robins writes, as millions went on strike across the country, was this Britain's lost revolution?
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Kitsch and woo-woo: cinematic visions of the ultrarich
Recent years have seen a boom in cinematic fantasies of the uber-wealthy where viewers are treated to mass spectacles of excess. But can any of them ever match the reality of the new elite, which is always dumber, more tasteless, and yet still more morally grotty than fiction could allow?
