Matt and Sam interview John Ganz about his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
Spring 2024
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Integrity and Defiance in Equal Measure
Percival Everett’s James, set in the nineteenth century, is a novel of the present moment—when legal measures that were once regarded as essential components of racial justice are being dismantled.
Inequality Without Class
To grasp where inequality is headed—much less to reduce it—we will need to look beyond the economic.
Know Your Enemy: The Gay Men Who Built the Conservative Movement
Matt and Sam are joined by Neil J. Young to discuss his new book, Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right.
The Partisan Psychiatrist
Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work was the most practical manifestation of his larger ambition to restore agency to alienated subjects.
Chileans for Gaza
While the largest diasporic population of Palestinians in the world contains strong political disagreements, they have made Chile a stalwart opponent of the war in Gaza.
Giorgia Meloni’s Europe
The Italian prime minister has become a central figure in the EU establishment as a mood of decline and threat pushes voters toward reactionary parties.
A Landslide Victory for the Mexican Left
The election of Claudia Sheinbaum, building on the record popularity of her predecessor AMLO, is one more step in the decline of the once-hegemonic PRI.
How Israel’s Illiberal Democracy Became a Model for the Right
For conservatives around the world, Israel’s democratic deficit is a feature, not a bug—an alternative constitutional model that defies liberal universalism.
The BJP’s Drive for Hegemony
Another electoral victory would enable Narendra Modi’s party to inscribe de facto Hindu supremacy into law.
Know Your Enemy: What Was the CIO?
Tim Barker and Ben Mabie join to tell the story of American labor militancy in the 1930s—and how the right responded.
After the Populist Moment
By looking at right-wing politics around the world, we can better understand conservatives’ abiding preoccupations and priorities, and how they might be thwarted.
Introducing our Spring 2024 issue, “The Global Right.”
Adults in the Room: A Response to Jeffrey C. Isaac
To insist that a movement remake itself in one’s image is not a plea for solidarity; it is a demand for obedience.
The Freedom to Dominate
When we view federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom both domestically and abroad.
A Makeshift Alliance
A professor’s critical support for the student protests.
Lessons from Starbucks Workers United and the Fight for $15
The National Labor Relations Act still functions, just barely, for Starbucks workers. Employees at fast-food franchises face even worse odds under federal labor law.
