Rediscovering Humanity in its Absence
Peter Brown’s Wild Robot series transcends the anti-humanist moralism of much contemporary children’s literature and presents a much-needed vision of a habitable future.
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America is Not Where Marxism Goes to Die
A new history dismantles the conventional wisdom—and implicit premise of much pessimistic critical theory—that Marx’s ideas never gained ground in America.
Self-Catfishing with Steroids
Steroid use is up, especially among young people seeking to display a particular physique online. The turning of the male gaze upon itself represents a radical form of alienation—and one with some nasty side effects to boot.
A Brief Statement on the Left
Why precisely does the contemporary Left persist despite its great unpopularity and political failures?
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).
