A quarter-century ago, the multilateral system of global economic governance had reached its pinnacle. Today, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank are experiencing a deep crisis of legitimacy. Walden ...

Michael Walzer ▪ Spring 2020 The construction of the Statue of Liberty in Paris (Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images) . Is liberalism an “ism” like all the other “isms”? I think it once was.

Quinn Slobodian and William Callison ▪ Summer 2019 Sahra Wagenknecht, one of the leaders of Aufstehen, at a rally in 2017 (Die Linke Nordrhein-Westfalen/Flickr) . In 2016, a dramaturge, a ...

Timothy Shenk: Let’s start with the end of the book, where you write, “battles for decency and truth are among the most important political battles of our time. And the adjective ‘liberal’ is our most ...

The long hot summer of 2020 integrated abolition into political agendas on a previously unprecedented scale. Since then, journalists and activists with questions about the meaning, vision, and ...

Neoliberalism has swallowed up too many meanings, making it harder to grasp the socioeconomic forces at loose today—and where viable resistance can be found. Daniel Rodgers ▪ Winter 2018 “The ...

Leta Hong Fincher ▪ Fall 2016 Li Maizi (left) takes part in a 2012 protest against domestic violence in Beijing. Photo courtesy of Media Monitor for Women Network. When Chinese police detained ...

Veena Dubal ▪ Fall 2020 Jeff Bezos has amassed over $85 billion since January, while many Amazon MTurk workers earn less than the federal minimum wage. (John Michael Snowden) In 1975 women in ...

Suzanne Schneider ▪ Spring 2024 Conservative legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich testifies at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem ...

Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn ▪ Winter 2024 Lincoln being sworn in by Chief Justice Taney (Library of Congress) . The idea of disregarding the U.S. Supreme Court—simply ignoring its ...

Trump the Subversive Agent. The Obama era—with its appeals to moral consensus, somewhat restrained projection of American power, and limited embrace of social policy reformism—was a time of relative ...

Ned Resnikoff, Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan ▪ Winter 2025 Construction at a multifamily housing development in Los Angeles (Mario Tama/Getty Images) . After decades of relative stagnation ...