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Markets Won’t Stop Fossil Fuels

Global climate institutions have embraced the primacy of capital, private firms, and markets—and in so doing have fatally undermined their own efficacy.

[EVENT | June 26] The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy

By: Editors

Can industrial policy be disentangled from rhetoric about a new Cold War? A discussion featuring Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Ho-fung Hung, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian.

Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With Men?

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.

Money Power

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.

The Compassion of Nellie Bly

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.

Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein

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.

Ghosts, Fantasies, and Hope

For most of my politically conscious life,the idea of social transformation has been the great taboo of American politics. From the smug 1950s to the post-Reagan era, in which a bloodied and cowed left has come to regard a kinder, …

Spectral Machines

What happens when the idea of the worker disappears?

Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?

It is a mistake to ignore the connection between the attempted judicial coup in Israel and the occupation of the West Bank.

A New Path to Diversity

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.

Michael Walzer Responds

I AGREE WITH Jim Rule on the wrongness of Israeli settlement policy. I don’t believe, as he suggests, that ending American support for that policy would reduce hatred for the United States in the Arab and Muslim worlds. People who …

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