Booked: The End of an Illusion
Born on the radical left and then seized by the right, has the concept of “capitalism” outlived its usefulness?
Fall 2024
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Joy Amid the Ruins
Amid the wreckage of the Trump administration, growing numbers of people are discovering solidarity—democratic socialism, even. Their vision may be radical. But have you seen the alternative?
Jargon or Clickbait?
Once an academic conceit, the term “neoliberalism” has long since gone viral, helping to faciliate a generational shift in popular discourse.
Booked: The Revenge of the Ruling Class, with Corey Robin
Corey Robin talks about the new edition of his book, The Reactionary Mind, and Donald Trump’s conservative pedigree.
Pride and Prejudice
Recent disavowals of Trump may not exculpate his early supporters. But they press the question: what would a real populism look like?
Booked: From Welfare City to Fear City, with Kim Phillips-Fein
Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her new book, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, and who killed the social-democratic city.
The Culture Wars Aren’t Over
You can’t call a truce on social issues in one breath if you’re going to gripe about identity politics in the next—especially when “identity politics” means any discussion about the realities of racism in the United States.
Booked: Capitalizing on Rural Resentment, with Katherine J. Cramer
Katherine J. Cramer talks about her new book, The Politics of Resentment, and how the right exploits rural-urban divides to promote a populist image.
Booked: The End of Managerial Liberalism, with K. Sabeel Rahman
K. Sabeel Rahman talks about his new book Democracy against Domination, and why liberals need to recover a language of economic power.
The Next Democratic Party
Parties recover from defeat in two ways. They can try to beat the opposition at their own game, or they can try to change the rules of the game. Donald Trump did the latter. Now it’s the Democrats’ turn.
A Time for Rage
Trump’s America will be a terrifying place. But fear is paralyzing. Rage, channeled appropriately, provides the beginnings of something better: resistance.
Booked: When Slaveholders Controlled the Government, with Matthew Karp
An interview with Matthew Karp about his book, This Vast Southern Empire, and the international politics of American slavery.
Booked: Learning How to Be a Black Man in America, with Mychal Denzel Smith
An interview with Mychal Denzel Smith about his book, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and why the language of universalism is not going to solve all of our problems.
Booked: The Origins of the Carceral State
Elizabeth Hinton discusses her new book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, and how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.
Booked: Our Fellow American Revolutionaries
In her new book, Our Sister Republics, Caitlin Fitz exhumes a forgotten moment in the history of the Americas, a time when residents of the newly formed United States came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.
