France’s Anti-Liberal Left
In the ideas of Jean-Claude Michéa, we can see what a left populism fully divorced from liberalism might look like.
Spring 2025
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An Interview with Jean-Claude Michéa
A conversation with the French writer and intellectual profiled in our spring issue.
Irreconcilable Lefts: An Interview with Kévin Boucaud-Victoire
In our last issue, Michael C. Behrent examined Jean-Claude Michéa’s “subterranean influence on a new generation of anti-capitalist radicals in France.” Here, he talks with Kévin Boucaud-Victoire, a young member of the Michéa-influenced French left.
Modern Warfare’s Secrets
What do the crimes of a Navy SEAL tell us about U.S. military culture?
A Housing Economy for the Many
Housing is a fundamental necessity, but a growing number of people are unable to afford the cost of living in major cities. To deal with the crisis, we need to roll back the financialization of housing.
The Fight for Rent Control
In the early twentieth century, immigrant tenant organizers made rent control laws a reality. Today, with new coalitions gathering strength and progressive lawmakers elected in Albany, working-class New Yorkers have a chance to once again strike a blow for housing justice.
A Better Housing Policy Is Possible
Momentum is growing behind an approach to development that can balance the need for more housing with stability and affordability for low-income communities.
The Roots of the French Far Right’s Rise
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is reaping the fruits of a long history of anti-European sentiment.
The Center Falters in Germany
The decline of the historically dominant center-right and center-left parties in Germany and in the recent EU elections sets the stage for greater conflict over how to deal with Europe’s multiple crises.
The European Far Right’s Environmental Turn
As climate change becomes a central concern for voters across the continent, right-wing parties are beginning to incorporate green politics into their ethno-nationalist vision.
Fracture and Polarization in the EU
With just six out of twenty-eight EU member states having nominally left-wing governments, the left needs to consolidate and build coalitions both nationally and at the European level.
After Act 10: How Milwaukee Teachers Fought Back
A Wisconsin law stripped their union of its rights. So the teachers got to work.
Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC
Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.
What Amos Oz Couldn’t See
The late writer’s displays of moral courage will serve as a kind of record for future historians, proof of the efforts of Israelis who did not stand idly by as their country’s skies darkened—as well as proof of their shortcomings.
Ayn Rand and the Cruel Heart of Neoliberalism
Trump is in most ways a Rand villain—a businessman who relies on cronyism and manipulation of government. Yet he praises The Fountainhead: “It relates to business, beauty, life and inner emotions. The book relates to . . . everything.”
