Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky during a press interview in Paris on 22 February 2020. On Valentine’s Day it emerged that the Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, now a political refugee in France, was behind the publication of a private video on…

Climate change policies could spark backlash akin to the mass protests in France if any benefits are not shared equally or the costs disproportionately affect the poorest, according to a new report (Andrew Milligan/PA) Rioting similar to the yellow vests protests in…

The politicisation of the young has been widely discussed, but it is the politicisation of the old that has been most effective. When people retire they often say they look forward to travelling, playing golf, gardening or spending more time with their…

Our show is about the French Gilets jaunes Movement, or Yellow Vests Movement. For more than a year, protestors have donned yellow safety vests and taken to the streets to decry the police, centrist French President Emmanuel Macron, and his attempted austerity…

Auguste Leroux: Excerpt from lithograph from the 1920 edition of J.K. Huysmans’s À rebours Discussed in this essay: Serotonin , by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Shaun Whiteside. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 320 pages. FRENCH WRITER J.K. HUYSMANS’S AGAINST NATURE , a…

Main Street of Logan, West Virginia, 1974. Jack Corn / US National Archives Michael Lind’s The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Metropolitan Elite follows from a series of works on the “ white working class ” published in the wake…

Auguste Leroux: Excerpt from lithograph from the 1920 edition of J.K. Huysmans’s À rebours Discussed in this essay: Serotonin , by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Shaun Whiteside. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. 320 pages. FRENCH WRITER J.K. HUYSMANS’S AGAINST NATURE , a…

It is a journalistic convention that any author who writes a doorstopper of a book with the word “capital” in the title must be the heir to Karl Marx, while any economist whose books sell in the hundreds of thousands is a…

There are deep problems with how the EU is working “There is a tendency right now within the European Union to say that Brexit is all because of crazy British nationalism and life will be easier without them – but I am…

Paris, 2019. | DiEM25 French National Collective. On January 30, 2019, already one year ago, the Council of Europe through its Commissioner for Human Rights expressed “ very serious concerns ” about the type of injuries wreaked on Gilets Jaunes protesters (the…