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Dark Enlightenment and Neoreaction: An Interview with Arnaud Miranda
Fulvia Giachetti 22 September 2026
In Les Lumières sombres, Arnaud Miranda traces the genealogy of “neoreaction” — the current born at the crossroads of libertarianism and Silicon Valley that, from Curtis Yarvin to Nick Land, has set its sights on the death of democracy. Reset interviewed Dr. Miranda about the durability of his categories, his relationship to neoliberalism, his positioning within the ideological architecture of Trumpism, and his reception in Europe.  
  • The Poison in the System Behind Cases Like Jeffrey Epstein
    Jim Sleeper 27 March 2026
    You may think that Americans have heard more than enough by now about how the influence peddler and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein “networked” with accomplices, victims, and their apologists. But all the tawdry cravings for money, sex, power, and, later, conspiratorial dealings by this country’s plutocracy-serving elite have been merely symptoms of a deeper, more dangerous craving that we need to understand. No matter whether we characterize that craving as pathological or as sinful in the nature of our divided human hearts, it has been poisoning the country since long before Epstein and Trump began riding and accelerating it in an ever-widening gyre. I came to it nearly half a century ago, when I got to know a practitioner of sinuous methods and morals that anticipated Epstein’s and Trump’s decades later.
  • Venezuela and the New U.S. National Security Strategy
    Andre Diniz Pagliarini 17 December 2025
    For months, U.S. naval forces have been gathering off Venezuela’s coast. The warships, the bomber flyovers, and the rising volume from Washington are not incidental. The likelihood of an actual intervention is not incidental. It is in line with the administration’s recently presented geopolitical priorities. The new National Security Strategy, released earlier this month, explicitly elevates the Western Hemisphere as a central arena of U.S. national security, linking migration, narcotics trafficking, and regional instability to the defense of the homeland.
  • Trump’s Power Politics in Latin America Beyond Venezuela
    Andre Diniz Pagliarini 16 October 2025
    Donald Trump insists he wants no “new wars.” In Latin America, however, that line is wearing thin. His administration has revived the language and logic of forceful intervention even as he maintains that the era of U.S. adventurism abroad is over. The result is a foreign policy that races to prop up allies like Argentina’s Javier Milei and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro while threatening adversaries like Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro.
  • Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a Boon to Democrats,
    but Don’t Expect them to Seize the Moment
    Hussein Ibish 7 July 2025
    The U.S. has never been short of hideous or harebrained legislation from both liberals and conservatives. But President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Budget Bill,” passed on Thursday by Congress, outdoes anything in living memory. In one gigantic sweep, it enacts at least four major national initiatives, each of which would alone qualify as among the most appalling legislative acts in modern American history.
  • The LA Protests Are What Donald Trump Has Been Waiting For
    Hussein Ibish 16 June 2025
    It’s a real-life film noir in the City of Angels. U.S. President Donald Trump is once again hurling Americans through the looking glass, this time – fittingly – in Los Angeles. It feels lifted from 1930s hard-boiled pulp fiction in which nothing is as it appears and everything is the inverse of what powerful men assert. It’s genuinely shocking, while also seemingly inevitable, that U.S. military forces are being deployed to major cities with the express purpose of trying to intimidate, quash, and, ultimately, violently confront Americans who dare raise their voices against Mr. Trump’s policies and practices. It is one of the most significant inflection points since the last election took America on the road away from constitutional democracy and towards the kind of repressive lawlessness this President admires in other leaders and is seeking to emulate in the U.S.
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