History

The Question of Palestinian Statehood

Is partition the only path to self-determination?

  • Leila Farsakh

The Summers of Theory

How it rose, fell, and may rise again.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?

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

  • Sam Klug

Freeing Free Trade

Is there anything left to anti-imperial visions of global commerce?

  • Kate Yoon

Is the State Here to Stay?

States are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

  • Jonathan S. Blake

Walter Rodney’s Radical Legacy

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

  • Shozab Raza
  • Noaman G. Ali

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What Happened to Liberalism?

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

  • Samuel Moyn
  • Becca Rothfeld

False Messiahs

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

  • Barnett R. Rubin

James Baldwin’s Day of Mourning

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

  • Ed Pavlić

Surviving a Wretched State

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

  • Melvin Rogers
  • Neil Roberts

Land, Language, and History

An Indigenous Peoples’ Day reading list

The First 9/11

The U.S.-backed coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende took place fifty years ago this week.

Liberalism in Mourning

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

  • Samuel Moyn

C. L. R. James’s Radical Vision of Common Humanity

It’s at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.

  • David Scott

Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

  • Hugh Ryan

A Record of Violence

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Jeanne Theoharis

Who Is History For?

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

  • David Waldstreicher

The Pursuit of Empire

The United States routinely contradicts its founding ideals.

Radical Pride

The rebellious origins of LGBTQ liberation

Killer Heat Waves Are Coming

And too many continue to do nothing.

  • David S. Jones

May Day and the Movement for Shorter Working Hours

International Workers’ Day is an occasion to build solidarity and rethink political economy.

Mass Destruction

How democratic participation in foreign policy became unthinkable.

  • Daniel Bessner

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

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