Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
Spring 2025
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How the Criminal Justice System Preys on the Poor
In our financialized era, policing, adjudication, and punishment have been reorganized as resource extraction operations.
How (Not) to Kill a Philosopher
In a recent review of Louis Althusser’s On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Anne Boyer misrepresents key aspects of his thought. At the center of her argument is the claim that “Althusserianism has been a Marxism for those who prefer their …
Managing Democracy in Russia
Russia’s Managed Democracy
Occupying a Midwestern College Town
Rafael Khachaturian: Occupying a Midwestern College Town
To Krakow and Back
My plane landed in Krakow on a sunny July morning. I had come there to participate in a program of graduate coursework and cultural exchange organized by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at the New School in New York …
State of Disorder: Russia’s Ultranationalist Problem
Khachaturian: Russian Nationalism
Some Remarks on Isaiah Berlin
Rafael Khachaturian: On Isaiah Berlin
Minority Rights in Estonia, Or What Multiculturalism Can Tell Us About Post-Soviet Politics
Rafael Khachaturian: Minority Rights in Estonia
History on Trial?
Rafael Khachaturian: Demjanjuk on Trial
The Specter of Russian Nationalism 
When he was named acting president of Russia on December 31, 1999, Vladimir Putin inherited a country still reeling from the Soviet Union’s breakup: economic woes caused by the rapid privatization of state assets and the August 1998 financial crisis, …
Piecing Together the Conflict in the Caucasus
Cease-Fire in the Caucasus?
Two Heads, One State: Medvedev in Russia
Nobody in Russia or the rest of the world was particularly surprised when the results of the March 2 presidential election were announced and Dmitry Medvedev won 70.2 percent of the vote. Most political commentators saw his victory as essentially guaranteed when United Russia, the biggest political party in the country—as well as the party of Vladimir Putin—officially endorsed Medvedev as their candidate back on December 17, 2007.
