The Lost Art of Looking at Nature
While David Attenborough’s work rarely gives center stage to climate change, his project has always been to shift how humans relate to nature.
Winter 2025
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Bad Habits
There’s no hiding from the rest of the world.
Responses to Aziz Rana
Patrick Iber, Adom Getachew, Stephen Wertheim, Aslı Bâli, Susie Linfield, Ramzi Kassem, and Darryl Li respond to “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire.”
A Cold Drink of Objectivity
In many accounts of the New York intellectuals, the prolific critic Harold Rosenberg seemed to fall through the cracks. Debra Bricker Balken’s biography reclaims him for the pantheon.
Night in Hong Kong
If Hong Kongers once hoped they could create their own future, that dream was crushed in June 2020. Deacon Lui’s work is about the uncertainty of how to move forward.
Should We Disrupt the Democratic Party or Take It Over?
As much as organizers might wish for strategic unity, movements are diverse and messy formations that involve both inside and outside politics.
An American History of the Socialist Idea
If there’s a lesson to be derived from Gary Dorrien’s account of American socialism, it’s that the movement’s open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.
An International Spokesman for Chinese Nationalism
Eric Li, a Western-educated venture capitalist, now plays an important role in the media ecosystem of state-aligned nationalism.
Authentic Freedom
Two recent memoirs by writers born under communism in Eastern Europe reflect on ideas central to the left: cosmopolitanism and socialism.
The Need to Mount Long-Term Resistance to Totalitarianism and Ethnonationalist Chauvinism
Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti has been incarcerated for “ethnic separatism” since 2014. New translations of his work offer a primary source for understanding the material conditions at the heart of the Xinjiang emergency.
Black Capitalism in One City
Soul City was a boondoggle—not a story of lost or forgotten roads tragically not taken.
Coexistence or Carnage
If the conflicts of interest are real, and the stakes are felt to be high enough, then war between the United States and China is a real possibility, and our foreign policy must be oriented toward avoiding it.
Xi is Not Mao
Mao and Xi’s historical projects couldn’t be more different, and it is high time to move beyond the bad history that conflates them.
Taiwan in the Crosshairs
Cold War metaphors have crept into the public discourse about Taiwan. These analogies mislead more than they illuminate.
Two Homes at War
For those whose hyphenated identities straddle a divided world, life is a series of compromises.
