The Freedom to Dominate
When we view federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom both domestically and abroad.
Winter 2025
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A Makeshift Alliance
A professor’s critical support for the student protests.
Lessons from Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15
The National Labor Relations Act still functions, just barely, for Starbucks workers. Employees at fast-food franchises face even worse odds under federal labor law.
Know Your Enemy: “Write Like a Man,” with Ronnie Grinberg
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Ronnie Grinberg to discuss her book Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals.
We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court
The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.
The War on Health in Gaza
The Israeli government is restricting access to food in Gaza at the same time as it is destroying healthcare infrastructure. Each process intensifies the lethal consequences of the other.
Sahra Wagenknecht Divides the German Left
The former Die Linke politician’s new party embraces a model that has found purchase among sections of the left across the Global North: left-wing economics paired with a variety of political positions pulled from the right.
The French Left’s Delicate Unity
Voters understand that a left unity pact provides the only path to victory on the national level.
Raymond Williams’s Resources for Hope
To be radical requires a theory of how this world, for all its problems, contains and is fostering the beginning of another, very different world.
Know Your Enemy: Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, with B.D. McClay
Matt and Sam talk to B.D. McClay about the right’s freakout over Taylor Swift—and what she can tell us about American fame, fortune, and fear.
“Zionism Über Alles”
The German political establishment has abandoned the belief that the Holocaust gave it a responsibility to humanity and replaced it with a responsibility to Israel alone.
Know Your Enemy: Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators
Matt and Sam talk to Jacob Heilbrunn about his new book, America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.
“It’s Our Duty to Talk About All Struggles”
An interview with Collectif Golem, a left-wing Jewish group in France fighting antisemitism and the far right.
Parties and Movements
A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world.
Poland After Law and Justice
The defeat of hardline national-Catholic rule was welcomed with euphoria by the big-tent opposition. The outcome for the Polish left is more ambiguous.
