Our Segregation Problem
Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
Spring 2024
- Subscribe
- Magazine
- Online
- Blog
- Podcasts
- Events
- Store
- Logout
- About Us
- Donate
- Contact
- Advertise
- Newsletter
Why Are You a Socialist?
Rather than a science or a lifestyle, socialism is an approach to the world’s injustices that can compel us to act with one another—even in darker times.
Where Do We Go From Here?
If there’s a chance to make a better world, our best shot comes from building a working-class majority.
The Future Will Be Radical
Will an epochal transformation of the very conditions of human life be carried through by elites on behalf of their own purposes, or will people finally seize control of their destiny?
Letters 
Remembering Irving Howe
Lucidity may have been Irving Howe’s favorite word, as much in prose as in politics. In a preface to the republication of Politics and the Novel, written shortly before his death, he remarked that nowadays, “when critical writing is marked …
Reflections on 1968 and Environs
Nineteen hundred and sixty eight came prewrapped in a mythic version of itself. At every moment, one was aware that this was 1968. The whole year was written in italics. Everything lent itself to media melodrama, but this was not the …
The Ills of the System
Thanks to the election of Bill Clinton, American are going to discover whether a change in leadership can cure the ills of their political system. Are the inadequacies in governing that have given rise to so much discontent mainly a …
Women’s Work
Caroline Walker’s paintings are a reflection of modern labor conditions in an increasingly service-based economy.
Destructive Myths
Romanticized stories about the Second World War are at the heart of American exceptionalism.
Against the Privilege Walk
Today’s privilege politics is preoccupied with calculating the relative degrees of social advantage among people who share the same broad goals.
Realism’s Imperial Origins
The left cannot afford to renounce its historical commitment to self-determination.
The Ethics of Realism
We must understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not to justify it, but to better find a resolution to the conflict.
The Proletarian Poet
A new book on Claude McKay is part of an effort to place the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance within the Black radical tradition.
Who Are the People?
The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
