Dissent
Letters
Flood Inc.
The adaptation framework has been used to privatize public services, extract resources, and muster new reserve armies of labor. People, not capital, should determine how to reconfigure their lives in the face of climate change.
Against the Privilege Walk
Today’s privilege politics is preoccupied with calculating the relative degrees of social advantage among people who share the same broad goals.
Who Are the People?
The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
Radical Taxation
Taxes demonstrate the legitimacy of democratic control of the economy. This is what conservatives cannot accept—and what surviving climate change will require.
The Ethics of Realism
We must understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not to justify it, but to better find a resolution to the conflict.
Realism’s Imperial Origins
The left cannot afford to renounce its historical commitment to self-determination.
Beyond the Blob
An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor Matt Duss.
Responses to Aziz Rana
Patrick Iber, Adom Getachew, Stephen Wertheim, Aslı Bâli, Susie Linfield, Ramzi Kassem, and Darryl Li respond to “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire.”
Bad Habits
There’s no hiding from the rest of the world.
The Lost Art of Looking at Nature
While David Attenborough’s work rarely gives center stage to climate change, his project has always been to shift how humans relate to nature.