Archive - Political Currents by Ross Barkan

A Tale of Two New York Cities

Cuomo v. Zohran, in the home stretch

Jun 20 •

Life with Zohran

Reflections on a campaign

Jun 17 •

Fascism vs. Genocide: Coming This Summer

Jun 14 •

These Things I'll Be

Brian Wilson 1942-2025

Jun 12 •

To a New Shining Hill

Beyond woke and anti-woke

Jun 8 •

The Collapse of the Professional Left

The state of play in NYC

Jun 4 •

May 2025

The Mortality Equation

On what AI can't do

May 30 •

The Fall of Biden

On 'Original Sin' and 'Uncharted'

May 25 •

For the Men Who Have Everything

On the unmoored oligarch class

May 22 •

MAGA in Twilight

Time wounds all heels

May 15 •

The Two Cultures

Meditations on fiction and nonfiction

May 12 •

The Return of Cuomo

A fallen governor, fallen no more

May 8 •

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