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April 12, 2018
The Power of the Word
Scientology’s unique manipulations of language seduced the novelist Sands Hall and kept her bound to the church.
Michael Friedrich
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March 29, 2018
What to Do About the Police?
Two new books examine the austerity policies and administrative overreach behind the expansion of local law enforcement.
E. Tammy Kim
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March 7, 2018
Waiting for Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment
The genre that Pinker’s latest book most closely resembles is not 18th-century philosophie but a TED Talk.
David A. Bell
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February 7, 2018
Organized Labor’s Lost Generations
Unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
Gabriel Winant
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February 1, 2018
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January 11, 2018
Paul Kingsnorth’s England
In two new novels and a recent collection of essays, the English environmentalist and activist captures a country coming apart.
Christopher de Bellaigue
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January 10, 2018
The Precarious Generation
It’s not the kids these days that we need to worry about, but the world their parents helped build.
Sarah Jones
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January 2, 2018
Resistance by Refusal: You’re Never Too Legit to Quit
In an interview, Jennet Kirkpatrick, the author of The Virtues of Exit, makes the case for giving up.
Richard Kreitner
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December 27, 2017
Arbitrary Rule
A new work of political theory captures the workplace power dynamics behind sexual harassment.
J.C. Pan
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November 28, 2017
Freedom of Thought
Individual freedom may well be a particularly American illusion, but can it be used to support progressive politics?
Brad Baranowski