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How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.
Their long embrace of “responsible conservatives” has always been dangerous.
Is partition the only path to self-determination?
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.
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.
It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.
Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.
But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.
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