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To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Walter Johnson

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This is a powerful alternative to the myth of post-racialism.

Donna Murch

Racial capitalism brings us back to the idea of dehumanization.

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Marx is thoroughly and consistently humanist.

Peter Linebaugh

Human rights can be allies in the fight for human justice.

Roberto Gargarella

Racial capitalism has a lineage that predates Cedric Robinson.

Peter James Hudson

To dismiss human rights is to ignore black liberation struggles.

Manisha Sinha

Some future version of human rights might escape its current limitations.

Samuel Moyn

The enslaved human should be central to our analysis of commodity form.

Stephanie Smallwood

The political ideology of slaveholders depended on liberal humanism.

Andrew Zimmerman

Humanity forms the beating heart of black liberation struggles.

Peniel Joseph

We need a restoration of historical thinking.

N. D. B. Connolly

Final Response: Going beyond liberal notions of justice.

Walter Johnson

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MLK Now

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

Brandon M. Terry

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All Reproduction Is Assisted

Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.

Merve Emre

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Cities on a Hill?

Cities are increasingly being viewed as bastions of progressivism. But can they live up to the promise?

Quinton Mayne

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Notes for Antifa from a Former “Terrorist”

A debate with Mark Bray about Antifa and the use of violence as a political tool.

Amitai Etzioni

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Losing and Gaining Public Goods

To build a tangible, inclusive, meaningful, and durable community, we must begin with public goods.

K. Sabeel Rahman

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The Right to Strike

Unions are being strangled by laws that block workers from organizing, striking, and acting in solidarity. Becoming a rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Peter Kellman

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Basic Income in a Just Society

Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which automation renders workers unnecessary. Is a basic income the solution?

Brishen Rogers

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Islam on Trial

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

Amna Akbar, Jeanne Theoharis

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Hamilton's Choice

Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.

Martha C. Nussbaum

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Is Globalization to Blame?

The loss of jobs that accompanied globalization could have been avoided.

Dean Baker

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After Trump

A pluralistic democracy is built on debate, disagreement, and wakeful action. This forum begins the conversation.

Joshua Cohen

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Confronting Religious Revivalism

Liberal democracy requires that we banish religion from politics.

Avishai Margalit & Assaf Sharon

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