Hot & Bothered Podcast: Building Power in a Time of Monsters, with Waleed Shahid
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Waleed Shahid about how the left can still build a winning coalition for climate justice after the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Winter 2024
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Nudging Toward Theocracy: Adrian Vermeule’s War on Liberalism
A generation of thinkers was raised in the orbit of centrist technocracy. As its luster continues to fade, strange new gods will arise in their midst.
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
A socialist president would have to navigate with great skill between the rocks of utopia and the shoals of compromise.
How to Build a Winning Coalition, with E.J. Dionne
E.J. Dionne on his new book Code Red and the power of “visionary gradualism.”
Antimonopoly and the Democrats
The antimonopoly tradition once contributed to mobilization, coalition building, and sustained reform across the liberal-left spectrum, and it might do so again today.
Meritocracy’s Casualties
The individualist credo is exacerbating already steep inequality and driving elites to protect their privilege by any means—even criminal ones.
What’s at Stake in the General Motors Strike
Only a strong movement can put the management of capitalism on the political agenda.
Belabored Podcast #183: Troublemaking in Asia
A report back from Labor Notes’s first ever conference in Asia.
Beyond the Backlash
How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.
Bernie Versus the Establishment?
The primary field isn’t polarized between left and center as clearly as it was in 2016. But Sanders is still the only candidate who tells us, over and over, that we need more than a good president.
How Movements Moved the Debates
If there is one thing the first Democratic debates made clear, it is that movements lead, politicians follow.
Who Can Lead a More Progressive Party?
The ironic consequence of Sanders’s 2016 campaign is that most Americans now have a difficult time understanding how his socialism differs from the stands taken by other progressive candidates.
The Reparations Debate
How should the struggle for reparations for slavery fit into a broader political strategy for the left?
Modern Warfare’s Secrets
What do the crimes of a Navy SEAL tell us about U.S. military culture?
How to Win
Without unions to institutionalize them, waves of activism dissipate. As the nation and the labor movement shift to the left, progressives need to push forward policies and politics that strengthen those working-class organizations.
