‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant ‘What Would It Mean to Think That Thought?’: The Era of Lauren Berlant
Four writers on the legacy of Berlant’s thinking both in the academy and in public life.
Jul 8, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Judith Butler, Maggie Doherty, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, and Gabriel Winant
Letters From the February 24, 2020, Issue Letters From the February 24, 2020, Issue
Competing theories… A serious misconception (web only)…
Feb 11, 2020 / Letters / Our Readers and Gabriel Winant
Is Anti-Monopolism Enough? Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?
In Goliath, Matt Stoller argues that US history has been defined by a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but to understand inequality today requires engaging with questions o...
Jan 21, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant
One Thousand Years of Labor One Thousand Years of Labor
Andrea Komlosy’s new history traces our evolving notions of work and how what we do is ultimately also about what we owe one another.
Oct 10, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant
Will ‘Janus’ Prove to Be the Fatal Blow That Unions Have Long Feared? Will ‘Janus’ Prove to Be the Fatal Blow That Unions Have Long Feared?
Or will it inspire the kind of militant unionism that could still resurrect the labor movement?
Jun 27, 2018 / Gabriel Winant
Organized Labor’s Lost Generations Organized Labor’s Lost Generations
Unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
Feb 7, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant
Birth of an Imperial Nation Birth of an Imperial Nation
A new history of 19th-century America captures how the United States was always an empire.
Jan 5, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Gabriel Winant