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 …
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 …
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 …
Caroline Walker’s paintings are a reflection of modern labor conditions in an increasingly service-based economy.
Romanticized stories about the Second World War are at the heart of American exceptionalism.
Today’s privilege politics is preoccupied with calculating the relative degrees of social advantage among people who share the same broad goals.
The left cannot afford to renounce its historical commitment to self-determination.
We must understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not to justify it, but to better find a resolution to the conflict.
A new book on Claude McKay is part of an effort to place the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance within the Black radical tradition.
The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
The adaptation framework has been used to privatize public services, extract resources, and muster new reserve armies of labor. People, not capital, should determine how to reconfigure their lives in the face of climate change.