Naming Our Desire: How Do We Talk About Socialism in America?
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Fall 2025
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Zombie Neoliberalism
How “There Is No Alternative” gave us Donald Trump.
The Rise of the Security State: From the Great War to Snowden
The American surveillance state was launched 100 years ago during the First World War, primarily to spy on and indict U.S. citizens who protested the war and the draft.
The Economy During Wartime
During the Second World War, the United States had a centrally planned economy—and the most rapid economic growth in U.S. history. What lessons can we take from the war economy today?
A Day Out and a Union: Lebanon’s Domestic Workers Organize
In a country of 6 million, there are now 250,000 migrant domestic workers laboring under the oppressive kafala system. Can a new union help transform conditions not just in Lebanon, but across the Middle East?
A Short History of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer is one of the few mainstream voices reminding Americans of our imperial identity. In The True Flag, he takes us back to where he thinks it all began—1898, when the U.S. political class pushed off on the quest for global domination.
The Politics of Comparison
Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation seeks to elevate the Movement for Black Lives by placing it on a par with the American Revolution, but his analysis carries troubling implications.
Gilt Trip
How the “Boston Brahmins” of the late nineteenth century laid the foundations for modern American capitalism.
What Lenin’s Critics Got Right
No regime identifying with Bolshevism has led to anything that can be called “liberation,” as early left-wing critics like Julius Martov and Rosa Luxemburg foresaw.
October’s Long Shadow
In Russia, the legacy of the October Revolution is the most forgotten, the most ignored, and the most paradoxical of all.
Neither Master Nor Subject: Zionism, Empire, and the Balfour Declaration
It was just a three-sentence letter, written 100 years ago—and many claim it’s still shaping the Middle East. But we should be careful about what we read into the Balfour Declaration.
Revolution by Candlelight: How South Koreans Toppled a Government
South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution was the culmination of a sustained protest movement that brought out over 16 million people—almost a third of the country’s population.
Can Labor Still Use the Wagner Act?
As American workers face down the national right-to-work regime threatened by Janus v. AFSCME, the Wagner Act’s vision of workplace democracy bears revisiting.
Trump Disrupts the Valley
Why the titans of Silicon Valley—long tied to the Democrats—have been warming up to Trumpism.
Sandtown Elegy
Remembering Freddie Gray, 1989–2015.
