Anti-Flag’s 2020 is About Reclaiming the Future

by Shane Burley. Everyone was covering their eyes as we headed into 2020, a year that feels like the worst confluence of global disasters, neoliberal fraud, and far-right advances. Which makes it feel serendipitous that the punk band Anti-Flag, which has made its opposition to the U.S. war machine its operating principle for its almost thirty years of existence, is releasing a new album for the election year.

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Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ Seethes with Class Rage

by Jimmy Wu. Class is back on the big screen. From Sorry to Bother You to Joker, the past year has seen an explosion of popular movies that offer, with varying degrees of coherence, a critique of contemporary capitalism. But perhaps no recent film does so with more savvy than Parasite, a new genre-bender that became the first Korean movie to win the Palme d’Or.

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