
Phantom Public
Have we lost the deeply democratic vision that animated the early internet?
Have we lost the deeply democratic vision that animated the early internet?
If the social insurance system is built for a model of family that is rapidly disappearing, how long can it stand?
Many mourn the end of marriage and the nuclear family, but if we want to fight inequality and improve life for parents, children, and the rest of us, we must look seriously at families as they exist today.
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks this past November, François Hollande reassured the French public, “Terrorism will not destroy the republic, because it is the republic that will destroy terrorism.” He then pressed the French parliament to give …
Attacks on public-sector unions are setbacks not just for organized labor but for anyone who believes the state should ensure access to basic social needs.
The incomplete or fragmentary state of Marxism is a sign of its ongoing life. It remains unfinished because so does history.
An intelligent left today can neither live within nor without Marx’s thought. Marxism today is most useful when it is erratic, irreverent, non-doctrinaire.
For U.S. labor, this is a moment of great peril but also great potential, unmatched since the New Deal era.
In addition to reimagining who workers bargain with, we must expand what they bargain for. Public sector unions often address similar issues at the bargaining table that community organizations tackle legislatively.
Labor needs to argue more. Unions always need solidarity, but it should not be the solidarity of the stolid and defeated.
The left must move beyond the false binaries of liberal Zionism and embrace a post-Zionist politics of civil rights and nonviolent resistance.
With a counter-argument by Susie Linfield.
The spirit of left Zionism, which was strong enough to build a country, has receded to the margins of Israeli politics. Can it be revived?
With a counter-argument by Joshua Leifer.
An interview with historian Vanessa Ogle about her new book The Global Transformation of Time.
Defending civil liberties is not merely a “strategy” or a means to some other end. One can, and should, oppose both torture and endless war.
In response to Samuel Moyn.
Civil libertarians have tolerated the normalization of perpetual, if more sanitary, war.
With a response by David Cole.