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Author Archives: Mitchell Abidor
Endangered Democracies
A new documentary asks: Has Brazil’s democracy been merely a passing dream?
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The Past Is Not Past
The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude interrogates his country’s antisemitic history and its echoes in the present.
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What Marx Got Wrong
A new biography of the philosopher misses the shortcomings of the Marxist tradition.
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‘Fauda’ and the Act of Israeli Ventriloquism
The new season of the hit Israeli show Fauda continues in its portrayal of brutish Israelis and cowardly Palestinians.
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Indonesia’s Unmourned Communists
A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.
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The Kremlin Ball
Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte's masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
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Revolutionary Bandits
A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
Read MoreThe Uncivil Servant: Ave Caesar!
by Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: The Landmark Julius Caesar, edited and translated by Kurt A. Raaflaub. Pantheon, 2017, 793 pages. AS I WAS READING the magnificent new Landmark edition of Julius Caesar’s works, my initial instinct was to relate the Roman leader to the anti-democrats of today, starting — of course — with our […]
Read MoreThe Uncivil Servant: German Cinema in Nazi Times
by Mitchell Abidor OCCASIONALLY DERIDED for being too broad and hasty in its estimation of individual films, Siegfried Kracauer’s 1947 study, From Caligari to Hitler, nevertheless stands as a classic of film criticism. Its old-fashioned, Old-World vision of German cinema from its beginnings until the arrival in power of Hitler, and its focus on the unity […]
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