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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisSeptember 9, 2019
Wendell Berry’s Lifelong Dissent
At the core of both his writing and activism is the insight that we can’t imagine a harmonious future without confronting the destruction in our past.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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HistoryApril 1, 2019
The Myth of the American Frontier
Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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September 12, 2018
How and Why the First Amendment Became a Weapon for the Right
Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has recast free speech and the Constitution’s core principles in order to entrench the power of employers and the wealthy.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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InequalityJuly 11, 2017
A Billionaires’ Republic
American democracy has always been threatened by concentrations of wealth as much as those of power.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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BiographyJune 1, 2017
Thoreau: A Radical for All Seasons
The surprising persistence of Henry David Thoreau.
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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Foreign PolicyFebruary 16, 2017
A People’s Globalism: Notes Toward a New Left Internationalism
Three writers consider the major foreign-policy questions facing the left today.
Michael Walzer, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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The LeftOctober 13, 2016
Populism’s Two Paths
Throughout the North Atlantic, insurgencies on the left and the right are challenging mainstream politics. The question is: Which popular movement—the left’s or the right’s—will prevail?
Jedediah Britton-Purdy