Saule Omarova’s Plan to Remake the Financial System
What would it look like if we subordinated finance to the public interest?
Fall 2024
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Cold War Liberalism Returns
A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.
Shared Terrain
The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history.
A Durable Concept
Nothing has replaced neoliberalism as a better descriptor for the political-economic order we inhabit.
A Real Opening
Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but the political order they constituted is not.
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Whether or not we’re moving toward a post-neoliberal world, the question that matters is if we’ll make a better one.
Jacqueline Rose’s Wild Analysis 
Our ugliest psychological impulses can be a starting point for social criticism.
Yearning for Freedom
In Ming Smith’s photo of Amina and Amiri Baraka, we can see the interdependence of Black art and political struggle.
The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy
Is a new Cold War the price of admission for the return of industrial policy?
Oil and Water
In The Rig, the connections between the workplace dangers of oil drilling and the existential peril of climate change come into chilling focus.
A Web of Hidden Wealth
The ultra-rich depend on a global network of lawyers, accountants, administrators, and other fixers to protect their wealth from taxation.
Plastic People
There has long been a gap between stereotypical ideas of women’s empowerment and gendered reality. Barbie explores these contradictions in miniature.
Homeless in Midtown: The View from Mainchance
The face of homelessness in New York City is changing, but the underlying problem remains the same: the failure to build affordable housing.
Sarah Polley’s Act of Imagination
Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth a language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety.
Power Games: How General Electric Exports Privatization
By positioning itself as an expert partner in international climate efforts, GE gains access to developing economies, propping up a system that pushes countries deeper into debt and increases their reliance on unsustainable fuels.
