The University We Want
Introducing our Fall 2021 special section, “Back to School.”
Winter 2025
- Subscribe
- Magazine
- Online
- Blog
- Podcasts
- Events
- Store
- Logout
- About Us
- Donate
- Contact
- Advertise
- Newsletter
Toward a Just Food System
A vision of a food system reliant on small family farmers producing local food ignores the necessity of addressing major problems at scale.
Huey P. Newton and the Last Days of the Black Colony
Huey Newton’s shifting political analysis illuminates both the limits and the ongoing relevance of the radicalism of the Black Panther era.
Belarus’s Season of Discontent
By focusing on what distinguishes the Belarusian model from its post-Soviet counterparts, we can better understand the sources of opposition to the Lukashenko government today.
A Mother Alone
Jon Henry’s photography offers the hope that remembrance can spark political change.
The Art of Obstruction
A new art project uses the legal system of mineral rights as a means to block oil and gas extraction.
Solutions for Democratic Decay
A clear understanding of democracy’s first principles makes it easier to assess threats to the system.
Racial Metaphors
If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed little or nothing.
Racism’s Roots and Branches
Racism in the United States is not mainly about individual bias but about divisions forged long ago by the super-exploitation and political dispossession of racialized groups.
An American Conception of Justice
Historians have amply demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation and reformation of the United States. But many of those same ideas and institutions have also been vital to combating white supremacy.
Beyond the Nuclear Family
We won’t end precarity with nostalgia for an era when men were the primary breadwinners.
The Feminist Struggle for Time to Care
The best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.
The Family Lottery
Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society.
Daddy Issues
The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.
Abolish Family Policing, Too
The child welfare system is a powerful state policing apparatus that functions to regulate poor and working-class families.
