To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city ...

Matt and Sam are joined by Know Your Enemy’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film One Battle After ...

This article will appear in our upcoming Winter 2026 issue on socialism in the city. Subscribe now to receive a copy. When was the last time being on the left was fun? Even in the best of times, ...

An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players?

In early July, the Department of Homeland Security indulged in a little art appreciation on X, where it posted a Thomas Kinkade painting, Morning Pledge, for its 2.6 million followers to admire.

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2018 Richard Nixon, HUD ...

Penguin Press, 2025, 768 pp. In a series of lectures on the philosophy of history delivered in the 1820s, around the time Spain’s colonies in the Western Hemisphere were declaring independence, Georg ...

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, ...

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 ...

The right to grieve is no less a human right than the right to live. If the left cannot recognize this, then it has learned nothing from the catastrophes of the last century. Gabriel Winant has taken ...

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 ...

You can read Gabriel Winant’s response to this article here. Leifer replies here. At the end of the Jewish holiday weekend of Simchat Torah, I turned my phone back on and was overwhelmed by images of ...