After Nasrallah

Adam Shatz, 10 October 2024

... after it was announced that Nasrallah was dead.Netanyahu’s American enablers – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin – swiftly echoed the Israeli prime minister’s celebration of Nasrallah’s death. Never mind that Netanyahu hadn’t consulted them about the bombing, which made a mockery of the American and ...

Short Cuts

Deborah Friedell: Reading J.D. Vance, 24 October 2024

... hillbilly brethren as ‘very hardworking people, and they’re very good people’, and he blames Kamala Harris for shipping their jobs to China and Mexico, and illegal immigrants for seizing on what little is left (when not too busy fricasseeing their cats). But in his memoir he argues that perfectly decent jobs are in abundance, but ‘too many young ...

Diary

Linda Kinstler: At the 6 January trials, 26 September 2024

... laying the groundwork for a legal and political effort to contest the results of the election if Kamala Harris wins.The right has long recognised that law is a ‘political instrument’, as Shklar put it. Its members decry the ‘weaponisation’ of the judicial process while at the same time wielding it for their own ends. Democrats, meanwhile, cling ...

Do you feel like a failure?

Emily Witt: In the Manosphere, 11 September 2025

Extremism and Radicalisation in the Manosphere: Beta Uprising 
by Deniese Kennedy-Kollar.
Routledge, 152 pp., £42.99, September, 978 1 032 63107 3
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Clown World: Four Years inside Andrew Tate’s Manosphere 
by Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea.
Quercus, 272 pp., £10.99, April, 978 1 5294 3784 3
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... Michelle Obama gave a speech about the person bleeding out in the delivery room being your wife. Kamala Harris promised to ‘protect crypto’. It didn’t work.Donald Trump was better at pandering to the mythology of the patriarchy. Men didn’t need to listen to a lady lawyer lecturing them about how to live their lives, nor did they need a social ...

After Nasrallah

Adam Shatz: Israel’s Forever War, 24 October 2024

... after it was announced that Nasrallah was dead.Netanyahu’s American enablers – Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the secretary of defence, Lloyd Austin – swiftly echoed the Israeli prime minister’s celebration of Nasrallah’s death. Never mind that Netanyahu hadn’t consulted them about the bombing, which made a mockery of the American and ...

Can that woman sleep?

Bee Wilson: Bad Samaritan, 24 October 2024

Madame Restell: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless and Infamous Abortionist 
by Jennifer Wright.
Hachette, 352 pp., £17.99, May, 978 0 306 82681 8
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... an embryo, for which she has no desire, and whose birth and appearance she dreads’.In September, Kamala Harris visited Atlanta to highlight the case of Amber Nicole Thurman, a medical assistant who died aged 28 leaving behind a six-year-old son. Thurman found out that she was pregnant with twins soon after Georgia’s new ban on abortion after six weeks ...

What are you willing to do?

James Meek, 26 May 2022

How Civil Wars Start – And How to Stop Them 
by Barbara F. Walter.
Viking, 289 pp., £18.99, January 2022, 978 0 241 42975 4
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... vice-president. A hostile Congress, or fraudulent multiple slates of electors, or both, would put Kamala Harris in an impossible bind. One​ possible outcome of the next presidential election is that a Democratic candidate wins a dispute-proof victory and is straightforwardly inaugurated. Another – perfectly likely – is that Trump runs again and is ...

Regime Change in the West?

Perry Anderson, 3 April 2025

... for re-election, in much the same way as the Conservatives had ejected Johnson in Britain, leaving Kamala Harris, his hapless vice president, to be thrashed in November by Trump, who won a larger majority than in 2016.What Trump’s second presidency will mean for America, and the world, remains indeterminate, given the long-standing gap between his words ...