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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.
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.
It's at the heart of what makes The Black Jacobins a classic.
Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.
But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.
Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.
Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.
Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
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