Mao and Xi’s historical projects couldn’t be more different, and it is high time to move beyond the bad history that conflates them.
Dissent
The Grassroots Intellectuals
China’s social and intellectual spheres remain less monolithic than the tightly controlled public transcripts would suggest, and their possibilities deserve our continued attention.
The Xi Era
The seismic shifts in the global world order during Xi’s rule call for new tools for understanding China and the varied lives and views of its inhabitants.
China’s Global Statecraft
An interview with Ching Kwan Lee.
The Carceral Logic of Child Welfare
An interview with Dorothy Roberts, the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
Know Your Enemy: Red-Diaper Baby, with Ari Brostoff
A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.
Lasting Cruelties
Reign of Terror situates the War on Terror as part of a longer story of domination that can be traced back to the founding of the United States as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.
Conflict in Twenty-first-Century China
A preview of our Spring 2022 issue.
Baseball’s Labor Wars
MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
Belabored: Retail Organizing at REI
Retail has historically been one of the hardest sectors to organize, but workers at REI are bucking that trend.
Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
Know Your Enemy: The Anti-Trans Agenda, with Gillian Branstetter
Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.