Twenty-six-year-old Miles Yardley — formerly known in downtown New York City as a musician, influencer, and model named Salomé — publicly renounced his trans identity this year, sold his women’s clothing online, and began posting grim details to his 20,000 …
What did #MeToo accomplish?
On Sunday, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced his long-anticipated bid to become the next mayor of the Big Apple. Speaking at a carpenters’-union event, the 67-year-old touted his record managing the pandemic while flanked by his daughters, …
Meet Brazil’s art cannibals
One could chew over the Western canon heavies, the Brazilian cultural critic Oswald de Andrade believed, and still spew out something singularly Brazilian — a sensible enough proposition, you might think at first blush. After all, creativity is a parasitic …
Interview 1933 – News, REPORTAGE and a Life-Changing Documentary with Keith Knight
James Corbett appears on Keith Knight’s podcast at The Libertarian Institute to discuss news, conspiracy realism, James’ new book, REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order, and a life-changing documentary called “Children Full of Life.”
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Rick Owens: fashion’s fetish king
Bold silhouettes; black ropes against smooth torsos; soft, dark leathers; fabric torn delicately, low slung, against Brutalist structures. The Rick Owens Paris show was a scene of distorted forms pacing concrete, a stripped-back dark minimalism that somehow felt new and …
The Brutalist’s fatal flaw
For seven centuries, travellers would marvel at the scattered verdigris fragments of the Colossus of Rhodes. The shortest-lived of the Ancient Wonders, the Sun God statue stood for just over half a century before being felled by an earthquake in …
How the woke Right stole normality
Perhaps you remember the Great Dr. Seuss Controversy, which took place almost exactly four years ago amid the annual “Read Across America” campaign — and which goes surprisingly far to explain the relentless whiplash of American politics. Four years ago, …
The paradox of Millennial perfection
Yoga mats, brushed-steel kettles, Scandinavian armchairs, avocado slices, marble-top pastry tables — this peculiar subclass of objects, and the life that is organised around them, is the subject of Vincenzo Latronico’s novel Perfection (Fitzcarraldo). That life involves: working from home …
Andrea Dworkin was right about men
If I were Andrea Dworkin, I’d be glad that I was dead. When the radical feminist writer succumbed to heart disease aged 58, it seemed tragically young — but at least she avoided the undignified spectacle of the fourth-wave feminists …
Why rappers worship Trump
On Tuesday in Los Angeles, A$AP Rocky left court a free man. The rapper, real name Rakim Mayers, was found not guilty of shooting his onetime collaborator A$AP Relli, in Hollywood in 2021, having been charged with two felony counts …
Episode 472 – Announcing REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order
I have published my first book. It’s called REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order and it is available for purchase as a paperback or eBook (and—coming soon!—as an audiobook) from ReportageBook.com. Today on the podcast I talk about the …
How the BBC betrayed EastEnders
Around a decade ago, walking through the Bogside, I noticed something unusual in front of Free Derry Corner. Before a small crew, preparing to do a piece to camera, was Ross Kemp, presumably filming something like “Britain’s Deadliest Terrorists”. Locals …
Frank Zappa: America’s last rebel
Doubtless the fake nonconformist is an American type that goes back centuries, but we surely reached an apex of fraudulence in the early 2020s. How passionately the rioters of Antifa demanded the same things as Fortune 500 CEOs, how righteously …
Morrissey is the villain we need
It’s been 20 years since I first set eyes on a Smiths LP. The LP in question — Meat is Murder — was released 40 years ago this week. I loved that cover. It made me ponder an alternative universe, …
Martin Amis stole my life
“This is the story of a sexual trauma,” writes Martin Amis, opening his 2010 novel The Pregnant Widow. “He wasn’t at a tender age when it happened to him. It was the opposite of torture, yet it twisted. It ruined …
