Geoff Shullenberger

It was the sort of grisly serendipity book publicists may only take covert satisfaction in.

The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon By Adam Shatz Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 464 pages, $32 Fifty years ago, Portugal withdrew from its African colonies after a protracted war. With this retreat, European colonialism came full circle: The Iberian seafaring power, which had kickstarted imperial expansion with the conquest of Ceuta in 1415, had now surrendered the last remaining European colonies in Africa. Leaving aside a few odd exceptions—such as Macau, which remained

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How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement By Fredrik deBoer Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $29.99 The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics By Richard Hanania Broadside, 288 pages, $32 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time By Yascha Mounk Penguin, 416 pages, $32 No Politics But Class Politics By Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels Eris, 390 pages, $25 America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Eve

Javier Milei’s trouncing of Sergio Massa in the final round of Argentina’s presidential election has electrified the political right worldwide, from Brazil and Hungary to Portugal and the United States. The electoral performance of the right’s insurgent faction had been flagging. The defeats of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro were followed more recently by poor results for the likes of Spain’s Vox and Poland’s Law and Justice. Giorgia Meloni’s victory in Italy last year offered a brief moment of

Over the past decade or so, just as the Pride Flag has accumulated new stripes and colors at a breakneck pace, so the abbreviation “LGBT” has grown ever more unwieldy, with its endlessly proliferating new letters captured with the shorthand “+.” In the most common version in use today, the final

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

Three years ago, as the novel coronavirus was making its way from Wuhan to every corner of earth, so did the novel mode of emergency management pioneered in that city: the mass quarantine of healthy individuals, now known by the prison shorthand of “lockdown.” Just as remarkable as the rapid

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

On Jan. 6, 2021, Alex Jones stood before the crowd gathered outside the US Capitol to protest the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Through a megaphone, he admonished the assembled Trump loyalists to stand down and return to the permitted protest area. “We’re not BLM, we’re