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

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 ...

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 ...

Just three years after his famous declaration that history had come to an end, Francis Fukuyama published a little-noticed piece, in the now-defunct journal New Perspectives Quarterly, suggesting the ...

Sarah Kasbeer Summer 2019 Happy in her enclosure at the Bronx Zoo (Courtesy of the Nonhuman Rights Project) If Happy the elephant were allowed to live a natural life in the wild, she would likely ...

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 ...

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 ...

El Akkad is not the first person to wrestle with the relation between writing and effective moral change. As far back as Aristotle, philosophers have wondered if the written word could meaningfully ...

“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 ...

Passed through Congress even as the wreckage of rebellions was still visible, the HUD Act, in tandem with the Fair Housing Act, was intended to transform American cities and suburbs. Unlike Fair ...

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 ...