Bright Flight
Per Rolandsson discusses why Scandinavian culture has become so popular among the liberal middle-classes. Is it fascism, racism, or escapism?
Escaping the reality of today’s...
Messiah Musk
‘Elon Musk is my God’, ‘My favourite human being’, ‘This guy is the future!’, ‘Find a way to make him immortal!’. Exclamations like these...
Challenging “Gender Ideology”: (Anti-)Gender Politics in Europe’s Populist Moment | Jenny...
In this long-read article for The New Pretender Jenny Gunnarsson Payne offers an in-depth analysis of the emergence and power of so-called “Anti-Gender” movements and campaigns both here in...
On Strike Against Reality: Conspiracy Thinking as the Popularisation of Critical...
Conspiracy theories and post-truth politics have figured prominently in the popular consciousness throughout 2020; growing steadily alongside public health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic....
Is Marxism coming back? The resurgence of the Left in Europe...
In this weekend’s long-read article, Grigoris Markou surveys the re-emergence of Marxist and Communist ideas in contemporary political discourse. Tracing the relationship between Marxism and...
“The EU facilitates Tax Evasion” —Interview with Miguel Urbán MEP
In April 2016, the scandal around the Panama Papers detonated. Since then, the European Parliament has created a Commission of Inquiry to investigate what...
Turkey: the organic crisis of a post-populist moment | Omer Tekdemir
This week The New Pretender republishes the following article by Omer Tekdemir, and call to discussion and debate from our comrades writing in openDemocracy. Initiated...
Why are we Pretending? A Final Inventory Check upon Leaving Europe
Why should radicals look to 'pretenders' for inspiration? Amy Westwell and Cailean Gallagher trace the history of wild and illegitimate claims to power and...
The Revival of French Left-wing Populism: Interview with Political Strategist Manuel...
Manuel Bompard was the communications manager for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the French left-wing populist candidate who received 20% of the vote in the April 2017...
Amok Runners: Crisis of Patriarchy and Gender Violence in Turkey |...
In this long read and original essay for the New Pretender, Alev Özkazanç writes about the prevalence of gender based violence against women and members...