Editors' Note

New Events: AI | Black Literature | Palestine

Join Daron Acemoglu, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Noam Chomsky, and more in our free fall event series. 

Forum

Industrial Policy’s Comeback

Market fundamentalism has failed to improve economic and social conditions. Now, we need a mission-oriented approach to the economy that embraces an active role for government in spurring growth and innovation.

Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel, Josh Ryan-Collins

Science & Nature

The Long-Term Safety Argument over COVID-19 Vaccines

Concerns about long-term side effects have helped fuel vaccine hesitancy. An immunologist explains why we can be confident in long-term safety.

Andrew L. Croxford

Class & Inequality

The Classroom in Crisis

Education is not inherently liberatory: it has always been an arena for broader struggles over who has access to knowledge and to what ends learning is put.

Victoria Baena

Class & Inequality, Politics

New Book: Public Purpose

On industrial policy’s comeback and government’s role in shared prosperity. Preorder our Summer 2021 book now. 

War & Security

9/11 Forever

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

Joseph Margulies

Arts in Society, Race

What Justice Looks Like

Toni Morrison’s novels imagine a society governed by an ethic of care, devoted to restoring and repairing those who have been harmed, and giving them the space for transformation. 

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

To Say Goodbye

A veteran AIDS activist recalls living in the Bay Area during the 1990s, the queer people of color usually left out of the epidemic’s history, and how the decade taught him to value endings.

Andrew Spieldenner

Gender & Sexuality, Race

Gender Is Queer for Everyone

Gender rarely lives up to our expectations, and a lot of what we think of as gender actually has more to do with race and money.

Kathryn Bond Stockton

Science & Nature

Hospitals Need More Than Vaccine Mandates

If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.

Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako

Politics

Bad Information

Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.

Nicolas Guilhot