Understanding Tariffs, Understanding Democracies
In this week's Sublation Magazine, we will discuss Trump's latest round of tariff threats, the announced investigation into former FBI director James …
Category: Video
What is History?
Spencer Leonard discusses Walter Benjamin's "On the Concept of History" with Douglas Lain. He raises the question, "Can a Marxist be an historian?"
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Big Beautiful Politics (Same as it Ever Was?)
Benjamin Studebaker and Douglas Lain discuss Elon Musk's new political party, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, and Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of Hist…
Why Zohran Mamdani is a Trap for the Left
Chris Cutrone discusses the regressive character of the hoopla around Zohran Mamdani and explains how this is a repetition of the past failures of the…
Noah Kumin on the Clockwork in Novels
Nina Power and Douglas Lain talk to Noah Kumin about his novel "Stop All the Clocks."
What is the purpose of the novel today? What is alt.lit and wh…
America Needs to Mourn
In this new Critical Cuts video Douglas Lain explains the difference between melancholy and mourning, considers the 9/11 memorial "Reflecting Absence,…