The Fictions of Finance
As the divide between finance and everyday life yawns ever wider, fiction has stepped into the gap.
Spring 2025
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Between Pain and Despair: What Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Missing
For all his channeling of James Baldwin, Coates seems to have forgotten that black people “can’t afford despair.”
Where’s the Outrage?
As historian Steve Fraser sees it, we should look toward the “long nineteenth century” for inspiration in constructing a new, lasting American resistance to capitalism.
The Weimar Mind: A Prehistory of the Surveillance State?
In its account of the intellectual foundations of the Cold War, Udi Greenberg’s The Weimar Century offers an unlikely origin story for our post-9/11 order.
What Happened to the Rock Critic?
Did Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed “Dean of Rock Critics,” help kill off his own project?
Social Democracy in America?
Lane Kenworthy delivers a crisp manifesto for an “American” version of social democracy. But can his vision transcend Republican extremism, union decline, and our country’s racial heterogeneity?
Brute Ideology
Witchcraft and racecraft—unlike witches and race—are things that actually exist.
For Pleasure: A Letter
Difficulty is not an inherent virtue. A book must on some level give pleasure.
The Rise of Reagan’s America
In his latest book, Rick Perlstein tells lively stories at the expense of the political complexity.
Decline of the Strike 
A new edition of Jeremy Brecher’s classic Strike reminds readers of the sheer size, violence, and power of labor struggles now erased from American historical consciousness .
