Takaichi Whirlwind
When Sanae Takaichi took over as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last October, the party, which has dominated Japan’s postwar politics, was mired in one of its deepest crises.
Four Years Later
Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, lies and reflexes in which the war is enmeshed.
Godardorama
In 1988, approaching what he called ‘the dawn of the twilight’ of his life, Jean-Luc Godard had cause to reflect on an earlier dawn – Parisian cinephilia during the 1950s, the little world of screening rooms, notably Henri Langlois’s Cinémathèque Française, and …
Protest Music
‘It is only noise we secretly want’, the American composer Morton Feldman once wrote, ‘because the greatest truth lies behind the greatest resistance. ’ As a teenager in the early 2000s, I couldn’t get enough of it.