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After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism helps us fight fascism with greater clarity and with ever more questions.
A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.
Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.
In a sweeping history of Western philosophy, Jürgen Habermas narrates the progress of humanity through the unfolding of public reason.
The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.
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