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Seyla Benhabib’s 2024 Adorno Prize lecture.

Seyla Benhabib
Gender & Sexuality

Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.

Judith Levine
Reading List

Noura Erakat, Ariella Azoulay, Judith Butler, and more

Boston Review
Politics

In the wake of exploding pagers, universalism plunges into the abyss.

Joelle M. Abi-Rached
Class & Inequality

The tangled legacy of the Swedish experiment.

Simon Torracinta
Politics

On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.

Elaine Scarry
Politics

For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable.

Eli Friedman
Class & Inequality

How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.

Kevin P. Donovan
Politics

The colonial making of Taiwan’s chip supremacy.

Brian J. Chen
Forum

A path beyond our broken two-party system.

Lee Drutman

More Americans than ever are worried about the future of democracy. What is the best path to securing it?

Lee Drutman leads a forum on expanding our two-party system with responses from Danielle Allen, Maurice Mitchell & Doran Schrantz, Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld, and others. Plus James Goodwin on Project 2025, David Austin Walsh on J.D. Vance, Elizabeth Catte on myths about poverty, and more.

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Israel & Palestine
Politics

The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.

Ayça Çubukçu
Politics

A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

Ahmed Moor
Politics

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

Barnett R. Rubin

Virtual Event Series

Don’t miss our free, virtual events with leading scholars, writers, and activists.

Reading List

Harsha Walia, G.M. Tamás, Arundhati Roy, and more

The defeat of fossil fuel interests is the first step to social justice.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò with Thea Riofrancos, Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie, Joe Guinan & Martin O’Neill, and others
From the Archive
Class & Inequality

We’re witnessing the last-ditch effort of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.

Prabhat Patnaik
Arts in Society

Geoffrey Movius speaks with Susan Sontag about photography, writing, and memory.

Susan Sontag, Geoffrey Movius
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