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The Politics of Comparison

Sam Klug ▪ Fall 2017

Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation seeks to elevate the Movement for Black Lives by placing it on a par with the American Revolution, but his analysis carries troubling implications.

Gilt Trip

Allison Powers Useche ▪ Fall 2017

How the “Boston Brahmins” of the late nineteenth century laid the foundations for modern American capitalism.

What Lenin’s Critics Got Right

Mitchell Cohen ▪ Fall 2017

No regime identifying with Bolshevism has led to anything that can be called “liberation,” as early left-wing critics like Julius Martov and Rosa Luxemburg foresaw.

October’s Long Shadow

Keith Gessen ▪ Fall 2017

In Russia, the legacy of the October Revolution is the most forgotten, the most ignored, and the most paradoxical of all.

Neither Master Nor Subject: Zionism, Empire, and the Balfour Declaration

Susie Linfield ▪ Fall 2017

It was just a three-sentence letter, written 100 years ago—and many claim it’s still shaping the Middle East. But we should be careful about what we read into the Balfour Declaration.

Revolution by Candlelight: How South Koreans Toppled a Government

Alexis Dudden ▪ Fall 2017

South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution was the culmination of a sustained protest movement that brought out over 16 million people—almost a third of the country’s population.

Can Labor Still Use the Wagner Act?

Joseph A. McCartin ▪ Fall 2017

As American workers face down the national right-to-work regime threatened by Janus v. AFSCME, the Wagner Act’s vision of workplace democracy bears revisiting.