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Neoliberalism

Law & Justice

How Law Made Neoliberalism

If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.

Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal

Politics

From Revolution to Reformism

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

Adam Przeworski

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Why Privatization Is Wrong

Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.

Chiara Cordelli

Politics

The Real Reason the GOP Suppresses the Vote

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

Yochai Benkler

Class & Inequality

Political Economy After Neoliberalism

The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.

Neil Fligstein, Steven Vogel

Politics

Rethinking Political Economy

Rejecting market fundamentalism, Rethinking Political Economy will provide space for advancing alternatives—in theory, politics, and policy—to the neoliberalism of the last forty years.

Boston Review

Law & Justice, Politics

Trump’s America Remains Stuck in the Shadow of Reagan

Only a few decades old, the corporate autocracy the former president unleashed on the United States is not natural law. It had to be created, and it can also be undone.

Martin Gelin

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

Colonizing the Future

Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke. More than higher wages and better job security, a just economy requires giving them the power to choose and create their own futures.

Kevin P. Donovan

Global Justice

Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too

While economists enshrine Hong Kong as the ideal free market, the social consequences of its neoliberal policies have been disastrous.

Macabe Keliher

War & Security

The Death and Rebirth of American Internationalism

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

Edward Fishman

Politics

From the Editors: The Politics of Care

Over the past six months, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended our individual and social lives. As we

Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen

Law & Justice, Politics

The Problem Isn't Just Police—It's Politics

In this interview, sociologist Alex Vitale explains how the policing crisis in the United States begins with politics—the decision to embrace neoliberal austerity and to turn the social problems it creates over to police.

Alex Vitale, Scott Casleton

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