Articles in Politics tagged with History

Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.

After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

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

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.