The Crypto Crisis
The latest cryptocurrency crash illustrates why the entire financial sector needs to be subject to democratic control.
Spring 2025
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Realism’s Imperial Origins
The left cannot afford to renounce its historical commitment to self-determination.
The Ethics of Realism
We must understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not to justify it, but to better find a resolution to the conflict.
Inflation Is No Excuse for Squeezing Workers
The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year threatens to loosen the tightest U.S. labor market in decades. What would it look like if policymakers consolidated workers’ recent gains instead?
The Proletarian Poet
A new book on Claude McKay is part of an effort to place the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance within the Black radical tradition.
Who Are the People?
The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
Flood Inc.
The adaptation framework has been used to privatize public services, extract resources, and muster new reserve armies of labor. People, not capital, should determine how to reconfigure their lives in the face of climate change.
Radical Taxation
Taxes demonstrate the legitimacy of democratic control of the economy. This is what conservatives cannot accept—and what surviving climate change will require.
Beyond the Blob
An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor Matt Duss.
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.
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.
Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Three
Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.
Who Segregated America?
Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.
Build a Better Internet
An interview with Ben Tarnoff, the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future.
