A Brief Statement on the Left
Why precisely does the contemporary Left persist despite its great unpopularity and political failures?
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The Crisis of Coercion
The crises of the twenty-first century demand conscious public control. But this power is conspicuously absent, on both right and left.
"Uncaptured" Identity Politics is No Substitute for a Politics of Class
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) argues that we can free identity politics from its “elite capture.” But why not simply pursue a politics of class?
Closer Than Mars
A review of Pelle Dragsted’s Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025).
Shedeur Sanders and the Marketization of College Sports
Shedeur Sanders’s slide in the NFL Draft was not about talent. It’s rather representative of a conflict between the NFL and the new culture of college sports that Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) has created.
Potholes
At the heart of an absurd and drawn-out spectacle consuming the Worcester, MA City Council is a depressing disregard for basic political responsibility.
It’s Our Fault
On MANGO’s, Coconuts, and the Responsibility of a Powerless Left.
