The Only Way Out Is Through
In this exhausted political moment, a reactionary antipolitics is ascendent — one that looks to “traditional” aesthetic and religious pursuits as an antidote to the spiritual dead-end of conventional “woke” liberalism and free-market conservatism.
The Predator Class is Hungry for a Post-Roe World
From gendered exclusions to the explicitly carceral capitalism of sharecropping, the predator class squeezed profit from precarity. It is one lesson they have not forgotten despite their erasure of slavery and its afterlives from public memory.
Gays Behaving Badly
A new book from the creators of the Bad Gays podcast explores the morally problematic lives of queer people from ancient to modern times. What unites these figures isn’t their “transgressiveness” but their persistent refusal of solidarity.
Solidarity With Trans Lives is How We Fight the Right
Conservatives are uniting behind a neofascist project and trans people are a prime target for violence. The Church can’t settle for anything less than costly solidarity with trans lives, claiming political conflict as a necessary consequence of Christian love.
It’s Not Enough to End Private Prisons. We Need a World Without Prisons.
One day while discussing the campaign with another student organizer, I made a comment referencing the urgent need to end private prisons. “Yes,” she said, “but we also want to end all prisons.”
How Aren’t We Going to Pay for That?
Ryan Cooper’s book is a surprisingly effective way to expose a conservative know-it-all or a liberal naïf to a sensible, progressive worldview—and it’s enjoyable to boot. Spending hawks beware, social democracy in America is possible.
Inside the Postliberal Mind
Adrian Vermeule’s new book was not written to persuade hostile readers, but to provide ammunition for his allies. It gives us a peek under the hood of postliberalism—and the contents are both shoddy and dangerous.
Right-Wing Evangelicals and Big Business: An Unholy Alliance
Right-wing evangelicals have played a huge role in the perpetuation of the vast chasm between the rich and poor, conflating Christianity with selfish libertarianism and cult-like support for the Republican Party.
The Political Economy of Racism: A Review of Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
Jonathan Tran’s new book advances a powerful analysis of racism that centers political economy and the misery of racial capitalism. His work is a pathbreaking contribution to antiracist literature, even if it doesn’t always deliver on its promises.
The Anti-Trans Onslaught Is Just Beginning
The longer project of the anti-gender right is just beginning to unfold. This fascistic movement must be fought. At stake is the very survival of trans people.