Global climate institutions have embraced the primacy of capital, private firms, and markets—and in so doing have fatally undermined their own efficacy.
A discussion featuring Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Ho-fung Hung, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian.
Jean Eustache’s famous elegy for a left-wing generation is, at its heart, reactionary.
A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.
Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.
Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.
Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.
Matt and Sam explore the “crisis of masculinity” in America through books on the subject by Senator Josh Hawley and Harvard political theorist Harvey Mansfield.
If we want to move toward a world that meets everyone’s needs, we will need to get serious about the role of money on the left.
Bly’s 1887 masterpiece Ten Days in a Mad-House reminds us that the ultimate test for public safety programs for the mentally ill is their impact on the most vulnerable.
In some respects, Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song is a quintessentially conservative book. But Dylan’s America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures.
It is a mistake to ignore the connection between the attempted judicial coup in Israel and the occupation of the West Bank.
The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly high levels of diversity.
An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
After more than half a century of dependence on Russian oil and gas, the war in Ukraine has forced German officials to reconsider their reliance on fossil fuels entirely.
If American leftists take seriously their commitment to self-rule and loathing of foreign aggression, they should shed their ambivalence about supporting Ukraine.
Join Sarah Jones and Zoe Hu for a discussion on stay-at-home girlfriends and feminism.
Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems.