Class of ’68
What can account for the worldwide impulse to rebel? Fifty years after 1968, a personal reflection on the Columbia University uprising.
Winter 2026
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Dic Lit
In his survey of the writing of dictators, Daniel Kalder is so dismissive of the tyrants’ actual ideas that it becomes difficult to understand why they had any power in the first place.
The Collective Power of #MeToo
Now we know the issue that unites women across workplaces is abuse by more powerful men, how do we come up with demands that move beyond naming and shaming?
Normcore
Channeling the anti-Trump #Resistance, a slew of recent books seeks to reduce democracy to a defense of political “norms.” But overcoming today’s crisis will take more political imagination.
Talking Back to the Patriarchy
It is in the interest of women of all generations to invent a complex, resistant, and sexually curious strain in feminist thought and action. History can show us how.
Suicide, Watch
“Jilly determined to wait at least four hours before checking the status of her farewell post so she wouldn’t look desperate, but then she remembered that she didn’t have long left. . . .” A short story.
The Class Politics of Teeth
Inequalities in oral health and dental access reflect our deepest social and economic divides.
Undocumented, Uninsured, Unafraid
In the fight for healthcare for all, single-payer and immigrant rights activists face serious obstacles, but also the opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of true universalism.
Brazil’s New Right
Since Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, Brazil has been in political turmoil. With ex-president Lula’s recent surrender, a new right threatens to become the decisive force in the 2018 elections.
Memphis Blues
In his unstinting backing of unions, Martin Luther King, Jr. made clear that racism was rooted in a long and stubborn history of class injustice.
The Culture of Democracy 
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought by James T. Kloppenberg Oxford University Press, 2016, 912 pp. A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley by Jane Kamensky W.W. Norton, 2017, 544 pp. We …
Putting Liberal Democracy First
Those of us who consider ourselves “left liberals” have expressed particular alarm about the symbolic and practical dangers posed by leaders such as Donald Trump and his supporters. To name but a few: mass rallies denouncing “the liberal media”; inciting …
How to Win Medicare for All
For a progressive program of government-provided healthcare to make it into law, survive, and thrive, it must be popular.
Crisis and Opportunity
The left will not live forever on the sidelines of political power. When we have an opportunity to remake our healthcare system, we must be sure to seize it.
Introducing the special section of our Spring issue.
From Imagination to Power
Pragmatic thinking and strategic action are not in conflict with the radical spirit of 1968; they are the only way to fulfill it.
