It was easy to compare the university to the state’s mountains: a site of extraction, a public good that had been plundered ...

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself. Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence in his classic, ...

In his 1964 speech “Communication and Reality,” Malcolm X said: “I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don’t call it violence when it’s self-defense, I call it intelligence.” Earlier that ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...

I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately ...

Over a decade ago, California put a price on carbon pollution. At first glance the policy appears to be a success: since it began in 2013, emissions have declined by more than 8 percent. Today the ...

Last August the New York Times Magazine released a special issue they called the 1619 Project, which uses the 400th anniversary of the arrival of “20 and odd” enslaved Africans in Virginia to recast ...

The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made the French economist Thomas Piketty a household name. The bestselling book, and the discussions that surrounded its release, ...

As even its harshest critics concede, neoliberalism is hard to pin down. In broad terms, it denotes a preference for markets over government, economic incentives over social or cultural norms, and ...

“How can a poet be renowned but unknown, adored but elided?” asks editor Michael Seth Stewart in his introduction to Yours Presently, a collection of the letters of pathbreaking queer poet John ...

The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

This essay appears in our print issue, On Solidarity. As I watched Pat Buchanan address the Republican National Convention three decades ago, I cried. I can still see his doughy face and fixed ...