When Racial Justice Meant Universal Social Benefits When Racial Justice Meant Universal Social Benefits
The left used to believe that reducing inequality across the board was the best way to combat racial injustice. What happened?
May 17, 2023 / Column / Adolph Reed Jr.
Is There Anything Below the Surface in “Beau Is Afraid”? Is There Anything Below the Surface in “Beau Is Afraid”?
When mothers and dreams are involved, it is hard not to think of Freud. But in Ari Aster’s latest, very little is left to the imagination.
May 16, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte
Proper Fat Proper Fat
Thin with disgust Fat with wordless joy And patience Thin like the opening of the gate You pray you’ll make it through Fat like the other side Fat with pubescence With moonstone or…
May 16, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Omotara James
Elias Canetti: The Last Cosmopolitan Elias Canetti: The Last Cosmopolitan
Throughout his life, Canetti maintained his commitment to a humanity undivided by the artificial lines of a nation or state and standing as one collective whole.
May 16, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Farah Abdessamad
100 Years of Palestinian Popular Resistance 100 Years of Palestinian Popular Resistance
Even among many sympathetic partisans of the Palestinian struggle, a narrative of victimhood prevails. But how we regard our past and present is a choice.
May 15, 2023 / Nasreen Abd Elal
Joe Biden, Culture Warrior Joe Biden, Culture Warrior
The president’s freedom agenda can win—if he doesn’t embrace austerity.
May 15, 2023 / Jeet Heer
What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia What “Demon Copperhead” Gets Right About Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel shows the reality of the opioid and foster care crises in the region without resorting to stale stereotypes.
May 15, 2023 / StudentNation / Jessica Miller
The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union
A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.
May 15, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile Kissinger’s Bloody Paper Trail in Chile
The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.
May 15, 2023 / Feature / Peter Kornbluh