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The New Politics of Higher Education

Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality, Politics

“Marx’s Old Mole is Right Beneath the Surface”

Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.

Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On

Failures in prosecuting the businessmen who profited from the Nazi war machine show just how far postwar Europe and America were willing to go in the Cold War quest to protect capitalism. 

Erica X Eisen

Science & Nature

The Economic Case for a People's Vaccine

Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.

Sanjay G. Reddy, Arnab Acharya

Class & Inequality, Politics

With a Uniquely Fragile Economy, Stimulus Is Not Enough

Our long-term goal must go well beyond the Senate bill to build a more resilient economy.

Mike Konczal, Felicia Wong

Class & Inequality, Politics

Whose Liberalism?

With its elite decision-makers and opinion-formers—and over 1.5 million copies sold per week—the Economist has exerted tremendous influence on popular liberal discourse for more than a century.

Ben Jackson

Class & Inequality

Games Economists Play

The hostile reaction to Binyamin Appelbaum's new book reveals the tensions within the economics profession over some of its most self-serving myths. 

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

It's The Gap, Stupid

Three new books draw a disturbing picture of America as a system of compounding inequality driven by a hereditary meritocracy of professional elites.

Archon Fung

Class & Inequality

When Economics Had Ethics

Remembering Kenneth Arrow

Debra Satz

Class & Inequality

Building the Natural Market

Smithian ideas about natural political laws and natural human reason thrived long beyond the Revolution.

Claude S. Fischer

Class & Inequality

The Power of Bad Ideas

A new book on economist Karl Polanyi.

Michael McCarthy

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Tell Narendra Modi: Human Development is More than GDP

This updated piece was originally published by the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public

Martha C. Nussbaum

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