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Editors ▪ June 4, 2025 As major climate disasters increase in frequency across the country, homeowners and renters are faced with new dilemmas about how to protect themselves and their ...
Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 ...
An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration. Patrick Iber ▪ Spring 2025 Buses of migrants from the Texas border arrive in New York City ...
This article was published in partnership with The Intercept. Rita Murad, a twenty-one-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel and student at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, was arrested ...
An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right. Nick Serpe: Hayek’s Bastards is, in some ways, a pre-history of the alt-right, ...
Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration. Joseph A. McCartin ▪ February 21, 2025 Protesters demonstrate in ...
Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. This is a fascinating episode that takes up figures that the ...
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were ...
When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources. Like members of a fractious clan rushing to the family ...
In the annual mailbag episode, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums. Once a ...
One way of understanding Israel that I think should not be controversial is to say that it is a machine for the conversion of grief into power. The Zionist dream, born initially from the flames of ...