Arguments on the Left: U.S. History
Three short essays from Michael Kazin, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Barbara Ransby.
Winter 2025
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An American Conception of Justice
Historians have amply demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation and reformation of the United States. But many of those same ideas and institutions have also been vital to combating white supremacy.
Arguments on the Left: The Family
Five short essays from Sarah Jones, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Sophie Lewis, Bethany Moreton, and Dorothy Roberts.
Beyond the Nuclear Family
We won’t end precarity with nostalgia for an era when men were the primary breadwinners.
The Family Lottery
Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society.
Daddy Issues
The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.
Arguments on the Left: Policing
Five short essays from Michael Walzer, Aviva Stahl, Elizabeth Glazer and Patrick Sharkey, Randall Kennedy, and Jasson Perez.
Arguments on the Left: Class and Race
Four short essays by Carla Murphy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Touré F. Reed, and Anika Fassia and Tinselyn Simms.
Arguments on the Left: Elections and Coalitions
Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.
Arguments on the Left: Free Speech
Five short essays by Brian Morton, K-Sue Park, Katha Pollitt, Natasha Lennard, and Asad Haider.
Multiple Mainstreams
Only public investment will deliver a media that can serve the news needs of our time.
The Ethics of Coalition-Building
Purity is a luxury only the privileged can afford.
Why We Need Good Police
Even after a massive redistribution of resources, there will remain a need for an agency with the authority to investigate, restrain, and detain those who insist upon criminally victimizing their neighbors.
A New Model of Public Safety
Tight-knit communities where residents have access to basic resources and strong local institutions are safer places to live.
A Consistent Approach to Policing
We have written so much about the police in recent months but said too little about what we really want and expect from them.
