Great Symbols Enacted the Age!
A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.
Winter 2025
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The Living Fraternity of Militants
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
Rebuilding the Democratic Coalition
While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies.
What’s the Matter With the Democrats?
Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.
The Decline of Union Hall Politics
To become a party based among workers again, Democrats must remember that partisan commitment often grows from local roots.
In the Shadow of King Coal
While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.
Industrial Policy Without Nationalism
Can we expand the state’s role in the economy while diminishing its capacity for war?
My Favorite Mistake
It’s easy to come up with plans for remaking society. It’s much harder to work alongside ordinary people to build coalitions that can change the rules of the game.
Squad Goals
The Squad was elected on a hope for political revolution—but it was missing a standing army.
Responses to Fred Block
Two responses to “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.”
Two Cheers for Pragmatism 
Bidenomics sought to solve big problems in a context of narrow congressional majorities.
Sins of Omission
Arthur Miller’s landmark play The Crucible illuminates the difference between informing and truth-telling.
The Literature of Uyghur Disappearance
Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
Fragments of a New World
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions
Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
