Winter 2024
Can the Democrats Win? For decades, center-left parties in the West have been moving right on economic issues. They have also become less oriented to the working class, growing their support among the affluent and highly educated—what economist Thomas Piketty has dubbed the “Brahmin Left.” Until recently, the U.S. Democratic Party has been no exception—leading […]
Fall 2023
Reclaiming Freedom Freedom has a dual legacy. On the one hand, it evokes struggles associated with the left, from abolition and anticolonialism to women’s and queer liberation. On the other hand, it has long been a watchword of the right, from neoliberals to white nationalists. This issue reclaims freedom as a fundamental political value, essential […]
Summer 2023
Is equal opportunity enough? This issue explores the importance of outcomes, not just opportunities. Part of our Opportunity after Neoliberalism series.
Spring 2023
Is equal opportunity enough? This issue explores the importance of outcomes, not just opportunities. Part of our Opportunity after Neoliberalism series.
Winter 2023
This collection of poetry, stories, and essays engages speculation as both a ubiquitous feature of capitalism and a radical tool of collective imagination.
Fall 2022
This issue explores a range of radical visions for a world after neoliberalism and empire, centered on movements in the Global South.
Summer 2022
Is equal opportunity enough? This issue explores the importance of outcomes, not just opportunities. Part of our Opportunity after Neoliberalism series.
Spring 2022
This issue argues that law is inseparable from politics, exploring the meaning of the law beyond the Constitution and the courts.
Winter 2022
This arts anthology explores whether and how we can repair the terrible ruptures of political and social life today.
Fall 2021
From climate change to the pandemic, uncertainty looms large over our public and personal lives. Eleven thinkers consider its scientific, philosophic, economic, and emotional aspects, and make clear that uncertainty need not be paralyzing.
Summer 2021
This issue makes the case for industrial policy—what it is, and why we need it now.
Spring 2021
Reckoning with AI’s threats to work, democracy, and justice, this issue asks what can be done to redirect AI for the good of everyone.
Winter 2021
Editors’ Note Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Adam McGee, Ed Pavlić, & Ivelisse Rodriguez ORIGINS Achal Prabhala, Binyavanga Wainaina Celebrated writer Binyavanga Wainaina’s first piece of fiction was thought to be lost. Recently rediscovered, it appears here twenty-five years after it originally debuted. Read More Duana Fullwiley Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers […]
Fall 2020
Despite decades of activism and scientific consensus about the perils of climate change, our economies remain deeply dependent on fossil fuels. How are we to meet the challenge of global warming before it is too late? Climate Action asks what we must do to begin realizing a green future today.
2020 Supplement
Thinking in a Pandemic:The Crisis of Science and Policy in the Age of COVID-19 Nearly a year after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in late 2019, the brutal toll of the coronavirus pandemic continues to rise. The result has been not just a crisis of public health but also a crisis of public […]
Summer 2020
The Politics of Care From the COVID-19 pandemic to uprisings over police brutality, we are living in the greatest social crisis of a generation. But the roots of these latest emergencies stretch back decades. At their core is a brutal neoliberal ideology that combines deep structural racism with a relentless assault on social welfare. Its […]
Spring 2020
The Right to Be Elected What might happen if a woman’s right to vote is seen as coequal with her right to be elected? Why are other countries so much better than the United States at electing women to office? In her lead essay in this anthology, Jennifer Piscopo argues that women in the United […]
Winter 2020
Anger looms large in our public lives. Should it? Reflecting on two millennia of debates about the value of anger, Agnes Callard contends that efforts to distinguish righteous forms of anger from unjust vengeance, or appropriate responses to wrongdoing from inappropriate ones, are misguided. What if, she asks, anger is not a bug of […]
Fall 2019
FICTION Fiction Sagit Emet Two orphans, who believe they are too old to ever be adopted, get a surprise chance. Translated from the Hebrew by Yaron Regev. Short Story Read More Fiction Samuel R. Delany In a pre-Giuliani New York where pornographic theaters create communities of dissimilar people, a young blue-collar worker and a homeless ex-con […]
Summer 2019
Editors’ Note Joshua Cohen Forum Opening Read more Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman, Suresh Naidu Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Robert Manduca In the 1940s and ’50s, the general public understood and agreed […]
Spring 2019
Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Forum: How Race Made the Opioid Crisis Opening Read more Donna Murch Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Peter James Hudson The expansion of banks […]
Winter 2019
Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Forum: Finding the Future in Radical Rural America Opening Read more Elizabeth Catte Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Thomas Baxter What happens when a school […]
Fall 2018
Essays Maximillian Alvarez What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now? Read More Nikhil Pal Singh The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free. Read More Adom […]
Summer 2018
Editors’ Note Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen Forum: All Reproduction Is Assisted Opening Read more Merve Emre Katha Pollitt Bonnie Honig Yael Tamir Sander Gilman Robert C. Post Bhikhu Parekh Elizabeth Frazer Saskia Sassen Homi K. Bhabha Joseph Raz Janet Halley Susan Moller Okin Essays Jill Richards, Silvia Federici Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill […]
