Matt and Sam welcome Dorothy Fortenberry back to the podcast to discuss gender, the 2024 election, and whether or not women ...

Apart from the executions of certain notorious criminals and the deaths of certain despots and terrorists, I can’t recall any public death provoking the approval that has greeted the murder of ...

At the end of last year, a friend and I sat down to watch the 2002 Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy. Grant’s character is kind of a loser, one who does nothing all day but live off the royalties of a ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024, 720 pp. More than perhaps any other poet in New York in the 1930s and ’40s, Delmore Schwartz defined the direction of American letters. “Cosmopolitan, radical, at home ...

The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend. Alex Press ▪ Fall 2024 United Auto ...

What do left intellectuals do when they know that they are too marginalized to change the world? They get busy interpreting the world, of course. And interpreting how we interpret the world, and how ...

Last summer in this space, I wrote that although Joe Biden was intermittently making noises about a new New Deal, he could just as likely end up a twenty-first-century Warren G. Harding, a caretaker ...

Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market. Fred Block ▪ Fall 2024 CIO Political ...

We should be ashamed that there are so many in food lines across the country. Unless dramatic action is taken, the lines are about to get much longer. Mark Levinson ▪ Winter 2021 (Spencer Platt ...

Purity is a luxury only the privileged can afford.

Neutralism is the most indigenous, the most spontaneous and the most important political mood in Europe. So long as the continent remains socially sick, neutralism will continue. So long as the ...

There are Civil War buffs who read and reread the chronicles of that immensely important time. There are labor buffs and I am one—for whom Antietam was never as searing as Harlan County, which is ...