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.
Spring 2025
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Know Your Enemy: Building a “Better” Trump Administration
Matt and Sam explore how movement conservatives—and their think tanks—are preparing for a second Trump administration.
The History of the History of the Right, with Kim Phillips-Fein
Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss historical scholarship on American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should the field orient itself to 2024?
Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
The Limits of Privatized Climate Policy
We cannot make the most urgent infrastructural investments of our lifetimes with gentle signals to financial markets. The clearest path forward is to embrace the capacity of the state.
Is There an Alternative? The Macroeconomics of the Biden Administration
The response to COVID-19 proved that the federal government is far more capable of managing the economy than many people thought. What happens now that Bidenomics faces rising headwinds?
Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection
The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.
A New Era?
The work of the left at this moment is to understand what new spaces have opened up and how to build upon them.
Introducing our Winter 2022 special section, “Beyond Bidenomics.”
Brazil Turns on Bolsonaro
As the 2022 campaign nears, many of the myths that made Bolsonaro appealing have been washed away by the grim realization of what he has always been: a huckster, most notable for his abrasiveness and authoritarian posturing.
The Politics of Protection
In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope.
Lessons for Courtiers
The results of the 2020 Democratic primaries suggest the limits of a left strategy for power starting at, rather than building toward, the presidency.
Daddy Issues
The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.
Abolish Family Policing, Too
The child welfare system is a powerful state policing apparatus that functions to regulate poor and working-class families.
What Was the Fascism Debate?
The clash over whether the Trump era represented the rebirth of fascism represents a disagreement about the role of language and history in shaping contemporary political agendas.
Know Your Enemy: The Afterlife of January 6
Was the January 6 breaching of the Capitol a genuine coup attempt by an extra-parliamentary faction of the Trump movement? Or was it a disorganized and pathetic act of desperation?
