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Angry Forever

There are two problems with anger: it is morally corrupting, and it is completely correct. 

  • Agnes Callard
with responses from
  • Paul Bloom
  • Elizabeth Bruenig
  • Desmond Jagmohan
  • Daryl Cameron & Victoria Spring
  • Myisha Cherry
  • Jesse Prinz
  • Rachel Achs
  • Barbara Herman
  • Oded Na’aman

Taxing the Superrich

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

  • Emmanuel Saez
  • Gabriel Zucman
with responses from
  • Stuart White
  • Bryce Covert
  • Karl Smith
  • Felicia Wong
  • Dean Baker
  • Martin O’Neill

The American Corporation Is in Crisis—Let’s Rethink It

For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.

  • Lenore Palladino
with responses from
  • Julius Krein
  • Michael Lind
  • James K. Galbraith
  • Brishen Rogers
  • Paul S. Adler
  • Martin Lipton
  • Isabelle Ferreras
  • Roni Hirsch
  • Rodney Foxworth 
  • Lauren Jacobs
  • William Lazonick
  • Katharina Pistor

Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

Rural places weren’t always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.

  • Elizabeth Catte
with responses from
  • Nancy Isenberg
  • Michael Kazin
  • Bob Moser
  • Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
  • Elaine Kamarck
  • Matt Stoller
  • Jessica Wilkerson
  • Hugh Ryan
  • Ruy Teixeira

A New Age of Worker Empowerment

How new approaches to worker organizing are finding success.

  • Sarita Gupta
  • Stephen Lerner
  • Joseph A. McCartin
with responses from
  • Thomas A. Kochan
  • Kate Andrias
  • Cynthia Estlund
  • Tamara Lee
  • Jane McAlevey
  • John Hogan

Democracy’s Dilemma

How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information?

  • Bruce Schneier
  • Henry Farrell
with responses from
  • Riana Pfefferkorn
  • Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
  • Anna Grzymala-Busse
  • Allison Berke
  • Jason Healey
  • Astra Taylor
  • danah boyd

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How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always turned on racial and economic difference.

  • Donna Murch
with responses from
  • Max Mishler
  • Britt Rusert
  • Helena Hansen, Julie Netherland, and David Herzberg
  • Michael Collins
  • Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
  • Jonathan Kahn
  • L.A. Kauffman

Economics After Neoliberalism

Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.

  • Suresh Naidu
  • Dani Rodrik
  • Gabriel Zucman
with responses from
  • Marshall Steinbaum
  • Alice Evans
  • Corey Robin
  • Margaret E. Peters
  • William Easterly
  • Debra Satz
  • Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
  • Arvind Subramanian
  • Complexity Economists*
  • Caleb Orr
  • Oren Cass

A Turning Point in Israel

The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.

  • Odeh Bisharat
with responses from
  • Hannah Pollin-Galay

MLK Now

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

  • Brandon M. Terry
with responses from
  • Barbara Ransby
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Andrew J. Douglas
  • Jeanne Theoharis
  • Elizabeth Hinton
  • Bernard E. Harcourt

All Reproduction Is Assisted

Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.

  • Merve Emre
with responses from
  • Sophie Lewis
  • Andrea Long Chu
  • Alys Eve Weinbaum
  • Annie Menzel
  • Chris Kaposy
  • Marcy Darnovsky
  • Irina Aristarkhova
  • Diane Tober
  • Miriam Zoll

Cities on a Hill?

Cities are increasingly being viewed as bastions of progressivism. But can they live up to the promise?

  • Quinton Mayne
with responses from
  • Richard Florida
  • Richard C. Schragger
  • Amy Liu & Nathan Arnosti
  • Clarence N. Stone
  • Hilary Silver

Notes for Antifa from a Former “Terrorist”

Debating the use of violence as a political tool.

  • Amitai Etzioni
with responses from
  • Mark Bray

Losing and Gaining Public Goods

Resources that are essential to enabling human success and well-being must be made public and universal.

  • K. Sabeel Rahman
with responses from
  • Elaine Kamarck
  • Michael Hardt
  • Jacob T. Levy
  • Lauren Jacobs
  • Joshua Cohen

The Right to Strike

A rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

  • James Gray Pope
  • Ed Bruno
  • Peter Kellman
with responses from
  • Alicia Garza
  • Bob Master
  • Isabelle Ferreras
  • Sophia Lee
  • Stephen Lerner
  • Alex Gourevitch
  • Janice Fine
  • Dan Schlademan & Andrea Dehlendorf
  • Cynthia Estlund
  • Bill Fletcher, Jr.
  • Thomas A. Kochan
  • Staughton Lynd

Basic Income in a Just Society

Cash grants have a role to play in building a decent future for work—alongside much else.

  • Brishen Rogers
with responses from
  • Patrick Diamond
  • Annette Bernhardt
  • Tommie Shelby
  • Peter Barnes
  • Juliana Bidadanure
  • Dorian T. Warren
  • Diane Coyle
  • Philippe Van Parijs
  • Connie Razza
  • Roy Bahat
  • David Rolf & Corrie Watterson

Islam on Trial

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

  • Jeanne Theoharis
  • Amna A. Akbar
with responses from
  • Wadie Said
  • Sudha Setty
  • Lisa Stampnitzky
  • Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
  • Tarek Z. Ismail
  • Sahar F. Aziz

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

How the history of slavery prompts us to rethink our notion of justice.

  • Walter Johnson
with responses from
  • Donna Murch
  • Caitlin C. Rosenthal
  • Peter Linebaugh
  • Roberto Gargarella
  • Peter James Hudson
  • Manisha Sinha
  • Samuel Moyn
  • Stephanie Smallwood
  • Andrew Zimmerman
  • Peniel Joseph
  • N. D. B. Connolly

Hamilton’s Choice

Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
with responses from
  • William Hogeland
  • Marta Jimenez
  • Kenneth Warren

Is Globalization to Blame?

The loss of jobs that accompanied globalization could have been avoided.

  • Dean Baker
with responses from
  • Peter Evans
  • Robert Lepenies
  • Susan N. Houseman
  • Michael J. Piore
  • Harley Shaiken
  • Alan Tonelson
  • Daron Acemoglu

After Trump

A pluralistic democracy is built on debate, disagreement, and wakeful action. This forum begins the conversation.

  • Joshua Cohen
with responses from
  • Janice Fine
  • Judith Levine
  • Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Christopher Petrella
  • William Howell
  • Nick Bromell

Confronting Religious Revivalism

Liberal democracy requires that we banish religion from politics.

  • Assaf Sharon
  • Avishai Margalit
with responses from
  • Michael Walzer
  • Avishai Margalit & Assaf Sharon

The Logic of Misogyny

Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.

  • Kate Manne
with responses from
  • Imani Perry
  • Susan J. Brison
  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Doug Henwood
  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Vivian Gornick

What Is Education For?

Above all, preparing students for civic and political engagement.

  • Danielle Allen
with responses from
  • Carlos Fraenkel
  • Deborah Meier
  • Michel DeGraff
  • Debra Satz
  • Lelac Almagor
  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
  • Lucas Stanczyk
  • Rob Reich
  • Clint Smith
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