Two Cheers for Pragmatism 
Bidenomics sought to solve big problems in a context of narrow congressional majorities.
Winter 2026
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Two Cheers for Pragmatism
Sins of Omission
Arthur Miller’s landmark play The Crucible illuminates the difference between informing and truth-telling.
The Literature of Uyghur Disappearance
Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
Fragments of a New World
In Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film, the landscape remains as a last witness to the violence of colonial power.
The Criminalization of Solidarity: The Stop Cop City Prosecutions
Georgia’s sweeping and political application of conspiracy law echoes a tactic that shattered the left roughly a hundred years ago, when the U.S. government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition.
The Labor Intellectuals
The new militancy coursing through the labor movement has revealed the growth of a more expansive and democratic union culture.
The World of the Radical Right
A roundtable discussion on the global networks and political strategies of nationalist conservatives.
Biden’s Healthcare Problem
Deeply ingrained inequalities—many of which are reflective of the country’s patchwork healthcare system—belie rosy projections that Biden is delivering inclusive growth.
Elder Statesmen
The two old men worried to their very cores about Trump came to opposite decisions: Mitt Romney quit, and Joe Biden is running again. Both may have chosen wrong.
Inequality Without Class
To grasp where inequality is headed—much less to reduce it—we will need to look beyond the economic.
The Partisan Psychiatrist
Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work was the most practical manifestation of his larger ambition to restore agency to alienated subjects.
Giorgia Meloni’s Europe
The Italian prime minister has become a central figure in the EU establishment as a mood of decline and threat pushes voters toward reactionary parties.
How Israel’s Illiberal Democracy Became a Model for the Right
For conservatives around the world, Israel’s democratic deficit is a feature, not a bug—an alternative constitutional model that defies liberal universalism.
The BJP’s Drive for Hegemony
Another electoral victory would enable Narendra Modi’s party to inscribe de facto Hindu supremacy into law.
After the Populist Moment
By looking at right-wing politics around the world, we can better understand conservatives’ abiding preoccupations and priorities, and how they might be thwarted.
Introducing our Spring 2024 issue, “The Global Right.”
