
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.
At the heart of Knausgaard’s struggle is the possibility of understanding—between himself and his family, himself and his readers.
In a retrograde moment like ours, the analytic ethic provides a strong source of resistance.
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.
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.
Today’s backlash against intellectual life cannot simply be written off as a popular celebration of mindlessness.
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.
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.
A forced exodus haunts a border town’s past. Can a new documentary force a reckoning?
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?
Charity fosters hierarchy, empowers the wealthy, and undermines democracy.
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.
Olivia Laing’s novel Crudo is a tragicomic monument to our hyper-atrophied attention spans.
What do American conservatives believe?
“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 …
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.