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Leonardo DiCaprio as Pat Calhoun in “One Battle After Another”

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

An illustration that imagines some of the scenes from Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Shadow Ticket

Thomas Pynchon’s Strangely Stripped-Back Noir

Shadow Ticket may be an exercise in restraint. But what is a Pynchon novel without its sense of unruly bigness?

Ethan Hawke’s Brilliantly Exasperating Quest for Truth

Ethan Hawke as Lee Raybon in FX's The Lowdown

Ethan Hawke’s Brilliantly Exasperating Quest for Truth

Books & the Arts

A collage showing Kwame Nkrumah and Martin Luther King, Jr. points to the ties between the two figures in the struggle for Black liberation. It also suggests the piece will discuss the promise of pan-Africanism.

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

The word ANTISEMITISM draped with an Israeli flag

How “Antisemitism” Became a Weapon of the Right

At a time when allegations of antisemitism are rampant and often incoherent, historian Mark Mazower offers a helpfully lucid history of the term.