A Fractured Coalition
A roundtable on the 2024 election.
Spring 2025
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Masters of None
The White House MasterClass series is a symptom of a moribund political culture in which power transforms a person into a celebrity.
It’s Time to Take Woke Capital Seriously
The left tends to dismiss corporate pandering to identity politics as insincere and inconsequential. It does so at its peril.
The Political Economy of Racial Inequality
The material causes of racial inequality can be overcome only with massive economic distribution.
Diversity and the Democrats
The diversity of the initial roster of Democratic presidential candidates pushed all of them to speak about their commitments to battle racism and gender inequity. But it wasn’t enough to transform the political landscape in which they competed.
Morbid Symptoms: An Interview with Ross Douthat
Can there be Trumpism without Trump?
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.
Know Your Enemy #12: She’s Got a Plan, with Rebecca Traister
How does patriarchy condition women’s political careers? How does the right mobilize anti-feminism to win?
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.
Beyond the Backlash
How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.
Zombie Neoliberalism
How “There Is No Alternative” gave us Donald Trump.
Against Progressive Neoliberalism, A New Progressive Populism
To establish a counterhegemony against that of finance capital, we must build a new, “progressive-populist” bloc combining the goals of emancipation and social protection.
There Was No Such Thing as “Progressive Neoliberalism”
Were social movements really handmaidens to the rise of neoliberalism? A response to Nancy Fraser.
The End of Progressive Neoliberalism
In a moment of political upheaval, it is up to the left to reject the false choices on offer and seize upon widespread discontent to redefine the terms of debate.
The Historical Task of the Left in the Present Period
If the survival of a vital center is also the precondition of an active left, one of the historical tasks of the left today is to help hold the center—even as we promote a militancy all our own.
