Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: The prehistory of the Russian Revolution
What makes the book really striking is that Tolstoy isn’t just telling the story of individuals, but revealing the psychology of an entire class.
Capitalism has killed Hockey Night in Canada
Rogers has shamelessly destroyed a Saturday night tradition that spans generations, and has taken away the last free way for Canadians to watch hockey.
[Podcast] Capitalism is ruining sports
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Film review: I Love Boosters
The irony is that I Love Boosters itself trips up at being art and slips towards being a textbook in a colourful disguise.
FIFA World Cup 2026:Capitalism is ruining sports
Instead of a celebration of the game, the World Cup has turned into a party for the rich.
Film review: Palestine 36
Showing the crimes that imperialism inflicted upon Palestinians nearly a century ago is vital for understanding the crimes it inflicts upon them today—but also to the Palestinians’ ongoing will to resist.
The Rules of the Game (1939) and the spiritual emptiness of bourgeois society
“The conception I had from the beginning was of a film rep­resenting a society, a group. I wanted to depict a class.”
Le Temps des Bouffons: The Epstein class on your screen
Falardeau rails against the “profiteers who pass themselves off as philanthropists,” the “groveling journalists dressed up as servile editorialists,” the “senile senators” and other specimens of rapacious capitalists, “in New York, Paris, Mexico City.”
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: proud defiance in the belly of the beast
Bad Bunny has accompanied a whole generation from their parties to their protests, without compromising his artistic vision.
The revolution will not be televised: The cinematic testament of the Bolivarian Revolution
Rare—if not non-existent—are works that narrate so closely the unfolding of a coup and, above all, its defeat at the hands of the masses.