The Economy of Influence
A conversation with Emily Hund, the author of The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media.
Winter 2024
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Liberal Commitments
An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
The Dawn of Austerity
An interview with Clara E. Mattei, the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
The Blurred Boundaries of Art and Politics
A conversation with Ben Davis, the author of Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy.
Traveling the Psychic Hinterlands
A conversation with Rachel Aviv, the author of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.
Build a Better Internet
An interview with Ben Tarnoff, the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future.
How to Tell the History of the Democrats
What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
The Carceral Logic of Child Welfare
An interview with Dorothy Roberts, the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
The History of Sanctions
Nicholas Mulder’s account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.
How to Repair the Planet
In Reconsidering Reparations, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò makes the case for a political project with a global scope.
The Deep History of Climate Change
An interview with Amitav Ghosh, the author of The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.
The Politics of Protection
In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope.
Why Do We Call the Police?
An interview with Derecka Purnell, the author of Becoming Abolitionists, about what makes communities unsafe—and how she went from calling 911 to fighting for abolition.
The Laws of Forever War
In Humane, historian Samuel Moyn argues that efforts to make U.S. wartime conduct less brutal have helped pave the way for a policy of permanent armed counterterrorism.
From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy
An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
