Can We Remake Finance?
We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
Spring 2025
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The Pandemic Welfare State
From 2020 to 2022, Americans saw the state mobilize immense resources to boost their standard of living—and then witnessed the hard political constraints hemming in this capacity.
Blood-and-Soil Neoliberalism
An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.
Trump’s Antisocial State
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
The Omnivorous James C. Scott
Like so many romantics, Scott mixed radical and conservative themes. No wonder he found appreciative readers across the political spectrum.
After the Populist Moment
By looking at right-wing politics around the world, we can better understand conservatives’ abiding preoccupations and priorities, and how they might be thwarted.
Introducing our Spring 2024 issue, “The Global Right.”
Man in the Mirror
The virtues of left unity are still obvious, but the grounds for compromise are harder to see.
Poland After Law and Justice
The defeat of hardline national-Catholic rule was welcomed with euphoria by the big-tent opposition. The outcome for the Polish left is more ambiguous.
Sweden Turns Inward
Most politicians now nod in agreement with the right’s calls to reduce immigration, deport the undocumented, restructure criminal policy, and prevent further political integration with the European Union. A new nationalist consensus is forming.
Ask a Neoliberal: An Interview with J. Bradford DeLong
In the 1990s, neoliberalism was a kind of utopian program. What remains after the crises of the twenty-first century?
The Struggle for Meaningful Work
Socially necessary labor should entitle us to respect, decent pay, and safe conditions—not a duty to work relentlessly, without complaint.
Know Your Enemy: Milton Friedman and the Making of Our Times, with Jennifer Burns
Matt and Sam interview historian Jennifer Burns about her new biography of Nobel Prize–winning economist and libertarian intellectual Milton Friedman.
Who Built the Zones?
Special economic zones are not just a product of the effort to free capitalism from democratic authority. They are a response to a broader anxiety about power imbalance between multinational corporations and national governments.
A New Class Consciousness
For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
The Habitation Economy
The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.
