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Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.
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.
Contrary to those who cast Marxism as a Eurocentric “white ideology,” the Guyanese revolutionary saw it as an essential component of struggles against colonialism.
Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.
How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.
Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.
Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.
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