MAGA political energy across the country, and yet the most recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 53 percent of ...

I am sorry that circumstances prevent me being with you today, to join again in the voices of protest raised against the actions of the Burnham Government with respect to Walter Rodney. But I am ...

Individual companies and entire industries have been playing and fine-tuning this strategy for decades, disingenuously demanding proof over precaution in matters of public good. For industry, there is ...

Second, Trump is symptom, not cause, of the “crisis of democracy.” Trump did not turn the nation in a hard-right direction, and if the liberal political establishment doesn’t ask what wind he caught ...

This moment represents a new low for music journalism as a whole. But it’s in times like these that prefigurative visions come more clearly into focus. Cat Zhang, a former Pitchfork editor, tweeted a ...

The debate about how to implement a new industrial policy and political economy also points to a deeper problem. Simply put, our administrative machinery is old, outdated, and not designed to build ...

As many have argued, the high stakes of this “new oil” call for radically new forms of governance. A central concern in this effort—as much as a matter of power as of equity—is the question of ...

October 02, 2023 There have been no higher-stakes public investments recently than those the federal government made in biomedical research and production to make COVID-19 vaccines. Many commentators, ...

But Trilling’s call for a self-purgation of liberal hope arguably functioned too well—so well, in fact, that anti-utopianism became its own form of tragedy, with a need to submit to “reality” part of ...

June 28, 2023 Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism Glory M. Liu Princeton University Press, $35 (cloth) One puzzle in the intellectual history of the ...

Conservatives have been pushing two related theories to explain this uptick. First, there’s the “social contagion” theory, which holds that in a world drowning in representations of heterosexuality ...

In the late summer of 1992, when Buchanan spoke, we had been in the United States for a decade. My parents, new citizens, had done the remarkable. That year through some uncanny frugality, my mother’s ...