Karl Marx

The Whitney Finds the Good Thing About the '80s

Hillary, Roe v. Wade's 40th, and the Great Conservative Revival Not Working Out for Rightbloggers

Since the 2012 Presidential election, conservatives have been trying to think up ways to revive their movement. Last week a number of them approached the subject, including George F. Will (basically you're doing great don't change anything), Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (basically you're doing g ... More >>

How to Speak Republican

Leaked document reveals the secrets of the GOP's coded language

Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012

Alexander Cockburn, trenchant political writer and former Voice columnist, has died of cancer in Germany at the age of 71, announces his friend and collaborator, Jeffrey St. Clair. "He didn't want to blog his own death as Christopher Hitchens had done," writes St. Clair at their mutual endeavor, Cou ... More >>

The Material World: Masses Entertainment

Dan Fishback works a musical-communism mashup at Dixon Place

This Week in the Voice: 4Knots

This week in the Voice, out today, Eric Sundermann headed to Hoboken, where he chats with San Diego-based Crocodiles, which is performing at 4Knots: "In 2009, they released their debut, the bedroom-recorded, grungy Summer of Hate. And even though Endless Flowers is only the band's third full-length, ... More >>

"The Black Power Mixtape" + Christopher D'Arcangelo + Fluxus

Revolution! Anarchy! Retrospectives! Three shows look back at politics in art

Hard-Nosed Chefs Say The Customer Can Be Wrong; David Chang Heads to Canada

​The customer is not always right at restaurants like Zucco: Le French Diner, Spotted Pig, and Momofuku, where the house insists its food is served a certain way, no substitutions or alterations allowed. [NY Times] A new bill in California would ban the sale and possession of shark fins, incl ... More >>

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

Rightbloggers Comfort the Real Victims of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Themselves

After Saturday's shootings in Arizona -- which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords badly wounded and six people dead -- rightbloggers were swift to condemn... any possible criticism of themselves. You can understand their defensiveness. Back during the 2010 campaign, Sarah Palin had en ... More >>

The 10 Best Rightblogger Rants of 2010: Obama vs. Jesus, The Sperm Donor Menace, And More!

What a horrible year it's been. There's been something to annoy everyone, and everyone took full advantage: The health care bill, the Tea Party, the BP spill, the Ground Zero Mosque, the Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart rallies, the Republican Comeback, the enhanced TSA patdowns, WikiLeaks -- and every bi ... More >>

The Millennium Recedes: Looking Back at Angels in America

The Signature Theatre and Michael Grief remount Tony Kushner's seminal play

Return of the Dick—Jeff Koons's Porn Pictures

The artist drips back into sight

Playing Politics In Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers and Lenin's Embalmers

Vietnam gets some airtime, Lenin gets some stuffing

TOTALLY RAD

Cooper Union goes anarchist

Rightbloggers Get a Scalp, and Perhaps a Party, in NY-23

On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a first. Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and ... More >>

FBI raid on G20 Twitter anarchist seizes mercury, ammunition, and pictures of communists

U.S. District Court Judge Dora Irizarry has halted FBI examination of materials seized in a Thursday raid on the Queens home of Elliot M. Madison, who was arrested outside Pittsburgh during the G20 Summit for allegedly using social media to help protesters avoid police. The FBI is said to have conf ... More >>

California Company Town Explores Boom and Bust in the Golden State

On Green Day's Dystopian, Prophetic, and Extraordinary 21st Century Breakdown

A veteran outfit makes its most ambitious record yet

America Torn Between Capitalism and Socialism

Well, who can blame them? Capitalism is not what it was, so it's not so surprising that a Rasmussen poll finds only 53 percent of Americans prefer capitalism (our alleged way of economic life) versus, uh, socialism. Don't panic (or triumphantly man the barricades, depending on your POV) -- only 20 p ... More >>

THE JOKER

L.A.: Hot and miserable; Barack Obama: Cool and refreshing

Free Will Astrology: November 12 through 18

Bartle's Bull: Old Voice Guy Goes McCain

The Obamamercial: A Review

Anti-Communist Polemic The Soviet Story Cuts and Pastes from History

Daily Flog: The Wall Street bear, the Capitol Hill bull; Kucinich irrelevant but his bailout plan isn't

Remixes From the Masses

Trent Reznor embraces populism, and another great NIN remix album is born

Revelation

Richard Kelly leaves nothing behind in his pop-packed apocalyptic pageant, Southland Tales

Spankmaster and Servant

On the psycho/genius double helix and XXX appeal of Kool Keith

Code Unknown

In the shadow of Da Vinci, Cannes '06's first great film: A visionary American comedy about the end of times

Film

Elements of Style: Pantsuits at an Exhibition

Armani at the Guggenheim

No Country for Old Men: Vonnegut Scans the Horizon, Emits Thought-Drool

Message in a Bottle

Rustic eccentrics wax philosophical and 'terroirists' denounce globalizers in wine doc

Aurally Sound

What You Hear's OK, but What Are You Seeing?

The Searchers

The Influence of Anxiety

Horoscope

Journey Through Debtor’s Prison

Stephanie Black Chronicles Jamaica’s IMF Woes

Forces of Nature

Berlin's Body Politic

Dialectical U

The Post-Seattle Generation Gets Its Marx Druthers

Buenas Vistas

Havana Plenty

Get With My Comrades

Pantsuits at an Exhibition

Armani at the Guggenheim

Taking Stock

The Stock Market's Experiencing Wild Swings. Nervous?

Marshall Berman’s Love Affair With Marx

Old People Got No Reason

Music

Music

Consumer Guide