What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

There was just one problem: the ratings were abysmal. The series averaged 5.97 million viewers an episode in its first season, making it the ninety-fourth most-watched show on network television. It ...

History Won’t Do Our Work for Us From Gramsci’s political and strategic thinking comes a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time. Among them: That revolutionary change will ...

Timothy Shenk: Let’s start with the end of the book, where you write, “battles for decency and truth are among the most important political battles of our time. And the adjective ‘liberal’ is our most ...

“Amusement under late capitalism is the prolongation of work,” Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer declared in 1944. The mechanization of labor, the Frankfurt theorists thought, had so enmeshed itself ...

The Cold War University The national security state provided a material basis and an intellectual context for the vigilant mood of Cold War liberalism. The military and American universities grew ...

The reality, then, is that presidents and other officials push back against judicial orders with some regularity. In extraordinary moments, “transformative” presidents defy the Supreme Court frontally ...

A Short History of Climate Democracy The current wave of anxiety about democracy and the environment has plenty of precedent. As modern ecological politics emerged in the 1970s, the political theorist ...

The IMF’s Terms and Conditions While neither the IMF nor the World Bank’s standing is as damaged as the WTO’s, their condition is nevertheless serious. Under former Managing Director Christine Lagarde ...

If the young have no deep engagement with or understanding of the past, what of the present? Is the common assumption that “youth don’t care about politics” grounded in anything? Ostensibly, it is ...

Elizabeth Anderson Fall 2023 Waterfront, Joseph Kaplan, ca. 1940 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) In March 2020, most of the governors in the United States issued stay-at-home orders for all but ...