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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.
Photo of a university library that has been designed in a neoclassical style—a brick facade with a white portico supported by corinthian columns.

The Long Reach of Campus Politics

The university plays a central role in broader struggles over economic and political power.
Mural on a brick wall—two clapping hands in a light blue circle

Making Hope Possible

On the utopian and dystopian tendencies of our current conjuncture.
Orange-and-white checkered recycling truck in front of an apartment building on a street in Berlin.

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.

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