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An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...
When Chinese supply lines were disrupted in late February because of shutdowns attempting to stop the spread of coronavirus, businesses and financial institutions around the world started to have ...
To be human is to shape the world, to create the infrastructure of our common lives. What do we do when that infrastructure becomes a trap?
History Won’t Do Our Work for Us From Gramsci’s political and strategic thinking comes a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time. Among them: That revolutionary change will ...
Eugene McCarraher Fall 2014 Ugolino di Nerio, The Way to Calvary, c. 1325 Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, 2014, 248 pp. God has been through a very rough patch ...
Most leftists have no difficulty opposing Hindu nationalists, zealous Buddhist monks, and the messianic Zionists of the settler movement. Why won't they take a firm stance against Islamists?
Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
Sheldon Wolin dedicated his career to championing not just a new politics but a new kind of politics—one that refused to substitute top-down administration for the messy uncertainties of democracy.
Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
Rock-and-roll fans tend to see the rock culture of the 1950s and ‘60s as both a reinvention of American popular music and a force for self-expression and liberal culture. Two new books show what this ...
Alex Press October 22, 2019 Members of the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 march in Chicago in October (SEIU Local 73) “Professional-managerial class” (PMC), a term coined by Barbara and John ...