James Baldwin has become the literary pinup of a generation. In 2025, he is everywhere: his most famous quotations stamped on viral infographics while his face is sold on mugs, t-shirts, and tote bags. The Fire Next Time has become a bestseller on both sides of the...
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Growing Old in a Time of Neoliberalism
The French sociologist Didier Eribon’s memoir Returning to Reims defined how a generation came to understand what he called “the hidden injuries of class.” Originally published in 2009, when the rise of the far right was still only a looming threat, not the defining...
Want to End the EV Culture Wars? Make EVs Affordable.
Culture warriors and industry lobbyists have turned electric vehicles into a proxy battle for deeper anxieties about class, control, and who might be left behind in a green economy. But most people just want a car they can afford. The cultural and political war over...
Brutalism Is Back
Not everyone is excited about the resurgence of brutalism. But the rise of neobrutalist projects shows how the polarizing architectural style can also be a pragmatic use of scarce resources. An architectural style is always a mirror of its time. In a digital and...
When Genocide Denial Is the Norm
Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values. Starving Palestinians including women and children holding pots wait...
Is This the End of MAS?
Bolivians head to the polls on Sunday amid a spiraling economic crisis and the total collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism. A right-wing victory could bring neoliberal austerity back to Bolivia, unleashing a new cycle of social unrest. Led by former president Evo...
Steven Rose Brought His Science and Socialism Together
Major social upheavals are typically accompanied by similar upheavals in the dominant ideas in society. This is as true of science as of other ideological spheres. The English Revolution of 1642–49, a key event in the transition from feudalism to capitalism, was...
The Trump-Era Gender Wars, Brought to You By Neoliberalism
We’re seeing an alarming revival of archaic gender role ideas, from the manosphere’s remasculinization crusade to trad wives’ rejection of public life. Veteran historian of gender roles Stephanie Coontz explains the moment’s deep economic undercurrents. Nearly...
Using Protected Identity to Suppress History
Legislation on protected identities is supposed to foster good intercommunal relations. When it’s used to protect Zionism, it means shielding a 19th-century nationalist ideology from criticism as if it were an innate characteristic of all Jews. University...
Why Gen Z Loves to Invest
Raised amid wage stagnation and soaring markets, Gen Z invests more than prior generations. Yet rising inequality means that, despite their efforts, most are unlikely to close the wealth gap with their more affluent peers. Retail investment has become more readily...
Is Cormac McCarthy “Based”?
Legendary novelist Cormac McCarthy is often hailed by the Right as one of its own. The truth is more complicated. Incest, cannibalism, necrophilia, murder, and war on a metaphysical level are often-favored Cormac McCarthy topics. (David Styles / Wikimedia Commons) If...
Colonialization Through Dehydration in Palestine
Israel’s extreme rationing of water to the Palestinian people is central to its larger project of control, domination, and ethnic cleansing. (Rizek Abdeljawad / Xinhua via Getty Images) Each stage of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza highlights a new atrocity,...