Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, William P. Jones talks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, the author of Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press). The idea of paying ...

Yale University Press, 2021, 336 pp. At my suburban English secondary school in the early 1990s, sixteen-year-olds took a test to determine their optimal careers. After my exam, I was marched off to a ...

The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile. Marcelo Casals ▪ December 22, ...

In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put ...

The global economy suffered an unprecedented shock during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the International Labour Organization, the number of work hours lost in 2020 was the equivalent of 255 ...

NYRB Classics, 2019, 120 pp. In the spring of 1968, as an undergraduate at Harvard, I took a course on the English Revolution taught by Michael Walzer, then a young professor in the government ...

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power. Bob Master ▪ October ...

117th Congress, 2nd Session, 814 pp. When we imagine what it means to live through a political crisis, most of us probably summon visions of extremity: assassinations and coups, depressions and ...

Michelle Chen ▪ September 19, 2022 A “Make Amazon Pay” protest in Berlin, Germany on April 24, 2018 (Emmanuele Contini/NurPhoto via Getty Images) During last November’s Black Friday and Cyber ...

The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year threatens to loosen the tightest U.S. labor market in decades. What would it look like if policymakers consolidated workers’ ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Nick Serpe spoke to Gabriel Winant, the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt ...

Since 1946, when the Army Air Forces decided to give $10 million to the Douglas Aircraft Company to found what would become the RAND Corporation, national security think tanks have exerted a profound ...