A vision of a food system reliant on small family farmers producing local food ignores the necessity of addressing major problems at scale.
Summer 2021
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The House That Charles Built
Over a long career as a public intellectual, Charles Mills used his gut-punching wit and moral clarity in defense of racial justice.
Belabored: The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street, with Ruth Milkman and Nastaran Mohit
Though the occupation didn’t last long, it shaped many subsequent campaigns and movements, including in organized labor.
Back to School
A preview of our Fall 2021 issue.
Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony
Huey Newton’s shifting political analysis illuminates both the limits and the ongoing relevance of the radicalism of the Black Panther era.
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.
A New Political Identity
Occupy Wall Street was the critical event in the formation of a novel anticapitalist intellectual milieu.
Why Did the Western Left Ignore Occupy Nigeria?
With millions of participants flooding the streets of Nigerian cities and towns, it was the largest Occupy movement in the world. Yet ten years later, little has been written about Occupy Nigeria.
Talking in Circles
Ten years on, Occupy’s demands have shaken off their aura of eccentricity. But there’s far less hope about the utopian possibilities of enabling everyone to speak at once.
Higher Education for the 99 Percent
The radical agenda set by the debtors’ campaigns that emerged from Occupy Wall Street have slowly reshaped Democratic Party politics.
The Debts That Bind
Strike Debt’s insistence that debtors “owe each other everything and owe Wall Street nothing” remains a potent rebuke to a financial system dependent on the narrative of individual responsibility and personal fault.
Know Your Enemy: Twenty Years of Terror, with Spencer Ackerman
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.
Lessons from the Public Power Campaign
This summer, two popular bills to democratize New York’s energy system died in the state legislature. A revived campaign will need both sympathetic legislators and the direct action tactics of social movements.
