Seeking Political Solutions in Israel and Palestine
One state, two states, and other proposals for peace.
Power, Politics, and Markets
The free market is not what it seems.
The Death and Life of the Author
Art, literature, and authorship in the age of generative AI.
Israel and Hamas at War
A collection on the deep context required to make sense of the violence.
Land, Language, and History
An Indigenous Peoples’ Day reading list
Everyone’s a Critic
The art and practice of literary criticism
The Future of Liberalism
Does it offer conceptual tools that could help us tackle today’s crises?
The First 9/11
The U.S.-backed coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende took place fifty years ago this week.
The Long Reach of Campus Politics
The university plays a central role in broader struggles over economic and political power.
Making Hope Possible
On the utopian and dystopian tendencies of our current conjuncture.
Politics Is Bananas
After years of relative neglect, consumption is once again being politicized.
The Precarious State of Israeli Democracy
Putting Israel’s recent protests in context.
The Question Concerning (Workplace) Technology
Will workers and the public get a say in how it’s used?
The Secret History of Revolutions
From the Magna Carta to the Mexican Revolution, there’s more to them than meets the eye.
After Affirmative Action
Can education fix inequality?
The Pursuit of Empire
The United States routinely contradicts its founding ideals.
Radical Pride
The rebellious origins of LGBTQ liberation
Fantasies of Fatherhood
Paternity is more complex than the stories we tell about it.
AI and the Specter of Automation
In a just world, productivity-enhancing technology would create more leisure and prosperity for everyone.
May Day and the Movement for Shorter Working Hours
International Workers’ Day is an occasion to build solidarity and rethink political economy.
Presidential Crimes
Trump’s indictment and arrest break with decades of executive impunity.
The Iraq War’s Catastrophic Consequences
Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.
Women of the World, Unite!
A reading list for International Women’s Day
Animal Rights Are Human Rights
On the imperative of inter-species solidarity.
The Future of the Welfare State
Strengthening social insurance programs will require a break from politics as usual.
Is Humanitarian Intervention Possible?
Using military force to solve humanitarian crises gained popularity after the Cold War, but decades of foreign policy blunders have called it into question.
The Black Scholars Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Want Students to Read
Among them are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Robin D. G. Kelley. You can read them here.
At 79, Angela Davis Is Still Fighting for a Better World
A reading list in honor of the radical philosopher’s birthday.
A Century of the Frankfurt School
The Institute for Social Research was founded one hundred years ago. We ignore its prescient theorists at our peril.
Twenty of Our Most Loved Essays of 2022
From politics, labor, and race to philosophy, literature, and sex.
Ten Essays You Might Have Missed
Don’t let these pieces pass you by!
Is There a Cure for Medical Racism?
From unequal rates of COVID-19 death and hospitalization to biased pulse oximeters, medicine must reckon with the racism in its midst.
The Meaning of the FTX Meltdown
The crypto exchange’s spectacular failure is the product of a bankrupt corporate culture.
Affirmative Action Under Threat
If the Supreme Court deems it unconstitutional, how else might we challenge entrenched inequalities?
Putting Elections in Perspective
Can more parties fix American democracy?—and other questions about our electoral system as the midterms approach.
What Does Fascism Mean Today?
And does it apply to the far right?
The Value of Care Work
Without it, society would fall apart.
Public Trust Is a Political Problem—Not Just an Epistemic One
It won’t be solved through fact checking.
Beyond the Debt Economy
We can put an end to unjust debts by embracing public goods.
Solidarity Makes Us Strong
A reading list for Labor Day 2022.
Privacy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
An “unholy alliance” of state and private industry threatens to undermine democracy and individual autonomy.
Remembering James Baldwin
Explore the ideas, influence, and legacy of this extraordinary American writer.
How to Avert Climate Catastrophe
Acknowledging the immediacy of global warming does not mean succumbing to despair.
Human Rights and Their Discontents
Advocacy of human rights has a long history on the left, but does it have a future?
A Very Short History of Freedom and Violence
An anti-imperialism reading list for July 4th.
Reproductive Justice After <em>Roe</em>
As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.
No Struggle, No Progress
A Juneteenth reading list on racial capitalism, resistance, and remaking the world.
White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream
Contemporary gun violence is not so much terrorism as tradition. It is deeply intertwined with the white supremacist foundations of the United States.
