Politics

Democracy v. The People

Rather than seeking to quash “populism,” we should broaden our vision of politics and make democracies more responsive to citizens.

  • Alberto Polimeni

Reconsidering the Good Life

Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.

  • Lynne Segal
  • Kate Soper
  • Anthony Morgan

You Owe Me an Argument

Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.

  • Rachel Fraser

How Government Ends

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

  • Lisa Heinzerling

Dispatch from Ukraine

As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.

  • Rajan Menon

Salman Rushdie and the Neoliberal Culture Wars

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

  • Faisal Devji

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Post-Growth Pleasure

Final response: A “greened” economy is still a capitalist one.

  • Kate Soper

A Bourgeois Revolution

The critique of capitalism must take precedence over the critique of consumption.

  • Nanjala Nyabola

Degrowth Is a Distraction

The distribution of gains is more important than GDP.

  • Jayati Ghosh

The Abundance Agenda

Doing less is not enough. We have to do more, and we have to do it better.

  • Will Rinehart

Ecology’s Utopian Vision

Conservation implies a new way of life.

  • Jackson Lears

The Fullness of Desire

Changing our habits of consumption is not enough.

  • Lida Maxwell

The Degrowth Economy

When it comes to growth, the devil is in the details.

  • Robert Pollin

The Limits of the Growth Economy

It’s bad for the planet and bad for us. Fortunately, sustainable living need not come at the expense of well-being.

  • Kate Soper
with responses from
  • Robert Pollin
  • Jackson Lears
  • Lida Maxwell
  • Will Rinehart
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Nanjala Nyabola

The Utopian Pulse

Dependence is a fact of all our lives; freedom lies in our capacity to care for others.

  • Lynne Segal

How Black Communist Women Remade Class Struggle

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

  • Charisse Burden-Stelly
  • Jodi Dean

The Asset Economy Strikes Again

The Federal Reserve’s bid to “get wages down” reflects the enduring hold of neoliberal thought at the highest levels of economic policymaking.

  • Martijn Konings

What’s Wrong with Technocracy?

Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.

  • Matthew Cole

The Education of Ben Bernanke

His new book cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Summoning Freedom

A conversation with Tananarive Due, Rasheedah Phillips, and Celeste Winston about Afrofuturism’s vision of Black liberation.

  • Nate File

The Mexican Revolution as U.S. History

In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

  • Jonna Perrillo

Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

After Dobbs

An interview on the post-Dobbs legal landscape—and how the federal government can respond.

  • Rachel Rebouché

Freedom, Not Benefits

Sex workers are labor’s vanguard.

  • Heather Berg
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