№ 2026.Jul.14-004

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The War on Terror Is a Permanent Building

Tom Mertes ｜ Reading by Editor

In *Homeland*, Richard Beck argues that the war on terror is not a betrayal of American values but their expression. In NLR 159, Mertes highlights its most insightful strand — that domestic police violence and overseas military violence are one and the same project — but also faults it for underestimating the autonomy of geopolitics and ideology. The war on terror is not a war that needs to be ended; it is a permanent building that will not dismantle itself.

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№ 2026.Jul.11-001

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Capitalism's Dead End, and Two Attempts to Crawl Out of It

Prabhat Patnaik ｜ Reading by Editor

In Monthly Review, Patnaik renders a two-sided diagnosis of capitalism's current crisis: neoliberalism has manufactured a dead end of stagnation, and every exit is sealed off by finance capital. Neo-fascism is one symptom; Trump's "re-colonization" is another — neither solves anything, but both lay bare a deeper structural predicament.

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№ 2026.Jul.11-004

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Trump's War, and Killing to the Rhythm of the Stock Market

Alexander Zevin ｜ Reading by Editor

A man who came to power on "no more stupid wars" has launched the war against Iran that the neoconservatives always dreamed of. In NLR 158, Zevin sets this war back into history — from the farce of Napoleon III to the cautionary precedents of the two Gulf Wars, from the myth of air power to market manipulation become reason of state.

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