Life from All Sides
At the heart of Knausgaard’s struggle is the possibility of understanding—between himself and his family, himself and his readers.
Winter 2025
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The New Psychoanalysis
In a retrograde moment like ours, the analytic ethic provides a strong source of resistance.
What Comes After Extractivism?
Reliance on resource rents keeps Latin American countries stuck in relations of dependency and undermines the core leftist goal of equality. The left must find another way.
After Repression, Revolt?
Xi Jinping has consolidated power to a degree not seen since the days of Mao. But the rigid system over which he presides may be more fragile than it seems.
Is Anti-Intellectualism Ever Good for Democracy?
Today’s backlash against intellectual life cannot simply be written off as a popular celebration of mindlessness.
Uruguay: The End of the Dream?
In the nearly fifteen years since it took power, the Uruguayan left has enjoyed broad legislative and economic success. But now its momentum may be stalling.
Crisis Cranks
Economists Posner and Weyl’s book Radical Markets attempts to make sense of the current moment and propose a way out, but their unorthodox proposals come up short.
Bisbee’s Ghosts
A forced exodus haunts a border town’s past. Can a new documentary force a reckoning?
Who Counts?
The refugee camp and its inhabitants at Piraeus Port, where Plato set the Republic, evoked a fundamental political quandary: who is included in democracy and who is left out?
The Philanthropy Con
Charity fosters hierarchy, empowers the wealthy, and undermines democracy.
Cuba Without the Castros
If the Cuban government focuses solely on economic reforms and limits political reform to cosmetic or ineffectual changes, it will be like cast iron: hard but brittle.
Character Limits
Olivia Laing’s novel Crudo is a tragicomic monument to our hyper-atrophied attention spans.
Right Privilege
What do American conservatives believe?
Voldemort Politics
“I don’t even say his name,” the finance bro told me as we made awkward small talk at the birthday party. Not that we would need to. He’s Donald J. Drumpf, Adolf Twitler, Covfefe in Chief, and whatever else the …
After the Pink Tide
To confront the newly powerful extreme right in Latin America, the left needs a clear-eyed understanding of its time in power.
Introducing the special section of our Winter issue.
