Spring 2025

The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth by Joe Studwell and Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization by Azizur Rahman Khan and Carl Riskin

From Jack Robin to Bob Dylan

The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn C. Loury

Hardt, Negri, and Postmodern Political Theory

Travels with Older Feminists

In October 1953, V. S. Naipaul’s father died in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He died in disappointment and misery. He had been waiting to see his son, who was finishing a degree at Oxford, and waiting for his own book …

Ten years have passed since the bloody carnage began in Bosnia, initiated by Serbian nationalist forces led by Slobodan Milosevic. To be sure, the Serbs were not alone. Croatia’s separatists, led by an equally authoritarian former communist general, Franjo Tudjman, …

If a drug-addicted person with a short criminal record of petty street crimes is arrested and convicted for shoplifting and at the same time is also convicted of possessing a few grams of cocaine, that person will likely spend several …

If Nelson Lichtenstein is only arguing that the contemporary labor movement should be bolstered by ideas, then we don’t disagree. As I noted in my review, inspiration is important. But to sustain the union spirit, workers need to see concrete …

Notes from the New Rural Landscape

Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century by Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom University Press of Kansas, 2001, 349 pp., $15.95 Here is a simple but important fact: approximately three-quarters of Americans live in metropolitan areas. Of these, …

It is very dangerous to teach religion in the wrong way. In order to achieve progress, you have to teach religion in its proper form. —Mehmet Nuri Yilmaz, head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Administration In our opinion the people who …

Around the world, right now, leftists of all sorts are engaged in arguments about the use of force. In our last issue, we focused on the question of humanitarian intervention, and all our writers, though they were a very diverse …

In the days and weeks after September 11, many Americans talked of a nation pulling together, of a people unified in horror at the terrorists’ slaughter of so many innocent lives and unified in support of our national effort to …