A Political and Literary Forum
Besides overturning the very structure of higher education virtually overnight, COVID-19 will also accelerate a number of troubling longer-term trends.
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
With Responses From
Christopher J. Lee
R. H. Lossin, Andy Battle
Adam Kotsko
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.
Brandon M. Terry
Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.
Merve Emre
What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
Walter Johnson
Cities are increasingly being viewed as bastions of progressivism. But can they live up to the promise?
Quinton Mayne
A debate with Mark Bray about Antifa and the use of violence as a political tool.
Amitai Etzioni
To build a tangible, inclusive, meaningful, and durable community, we must begin with public goods.
K. Sabeel Rahman
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
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
For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.
Amna Akbar, Jeanne Theoharis
Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.
Martha C. Nussbaum
The loss of jobs that accompanied globalization could have been avoided.
Dean Baker
A pluralistic democracy is built on debate, disagreement, and wakeful action. This forum begins the conversation.
Joshua Cohen
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