Duncan Stuart 6/17/22 Duncan Stuart 6/17/22

Marxism and Emancipation: An Interview with Dr. Asad Haider

Asad Haider is Assistant Professor of Politics at York University, a founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso Books, 2018; reprint: Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology, Verso Books, 2022).

H. N. Hirsch 6/22/21 H. N. Hirsch 6/22/21

Our "We": On Robert D. Putnam's "The Upswing"

H. N. Hirsch 3/27/21 H. N. Hirsch 3/27/21

Elite Hubris vs. Working Class Humiliation: On Michael J. Sandel's "The Tyranny of Merit"

H. N. Hirsch 2/3/21 H. N. Hirsch 2/3/21

A Library Book to a Knife Fight: On Heather Cox Richardson's "How the South Won the Civil War"

H. N. Hirsch 11/30/20 H. N. Hirsch 11/30/20

Liberal Hubris: On Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' "The Light That Failed"

Duncan Stuart 10/8/20 Duncan Stuart 10/8/20

A Way Out: Jackie Wang’s "Carceral Capitalism" and The Coming Austerity

Tobias Carroll 9/29/20 Tobias Carroll 9/29/20

What makes something a political sign?

H. N. Hirsch 9/16/20 H. N. Hirsch 9/16/20

Conflicting Stories: On Rogers M. Smith's "That Is Not Who We Are!: Populism and Peoplehood"

H. N. Hirsch 8/6/20 H. N. Hirsch 8/6/20

What Did You Expect?: On Masha Gessen's "Surviving Autocracy"

H. N. Hirsch 6/2/20 H. N. Hirsch 6/2/20

Duty, Accountability, and Commitment: On Judith Shklar's "On Political Obligation"

Dr. Anand Bhat 5/14/20 Dr. Anand Bhat 5/14/20

Red State Blues, Blue State Bailouts

Emily Prifogle 8/12/19 Emily Prifogle 8/12/19

Myth and History in the Midwest: On Kristin L. Hoganson’s “The Heartland”

Jacob Bruggeman 7/5/19 Jacob Bruggeman 7/5/19

A Long Line of Mugshots: On Fox Butterfield's "In my Father's House"

Brian Fairbanks 5/1/19 Brian Fairbanks 5/1/19

Lou Reed's "New York"

Dr. Anand Bhat 3/18/19 Dr. Anand Bhat 3/18/19

Frozen in Time: A Theory of National Stagnation

Griffin Reister Johnson 11/23/18 Griffin Reister Johnson 11/23/18

Betsy

Brian Abrams & Seth Richardson 11/21/18 Brian Abrams & Seth Richardson 11/21/18

Demystifying Daddy: A conversation with Brian Abrams about his book, "Obama: An Oral History"

Surabhi Balachander 11/9/18 Surabhi Balachander 11/9/18

The End of White Innocence: On Eula Biss' "Notes From No Man's Land"

Bruce Krajewski 9/13/18 Bruce Krajewski 9/13/18

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder": On Jason Stanley's "How Fascism Works"

Books like these area dime a dozen lately. Readers might do well to supplement their reading with Against the Fascist Creep or Theodor Adorno's The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses or Julia Boyd's Travelers in the Third Reich or Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler.

Steve Cucharo 9/6/18 Steve Cucharo 9/6/18

The 'F Word': On Madeleine Albright's "Fascism: A Warning"

Albright’s book is intended as a warning. Yet, she is warning us about things that are already here.