Alexander Billet is a writer, poet and cultural critic living in Chicago. He is a founding editor at Red Wedge magazine and has written for The Nation, Jacobin, New Politics and other outlets. Follow him on Twitter: @UbuPamplemousse.
Feature
Donald Trump and the Aesthetics of Fascism
What a 20th-century Marxist art critic can teach us about a very 21st-century candidate.
Alexander Billet
Feature
The New Anthems of Resistance: Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter and hip-hop have taken the omnipresent tensions around racism in America and put them into the center of mainstream consciousness.
Alexander Billet
Sign up for our free newsletter and get all of the most important In These Times stories about labor, politics, Gaza, culture, the far-right and so much more in your inbox once each week.
You'll also get our investigations, like the recently-published "U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists" and "The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders."
Thanks for supporting independent media!