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May 23, 2023
What Are Rules For?
A conversation with historian Lorraine Daston about her recent book on the history of rules and how they have structured life across centuries.
Ishan Desai-Geller
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May 2, 2023
Alasdair MacIntyre and Richard Rorty’s Lifelong Argument
While in many ways their careers ran parallel to each other, the two philosophers disagreed about whether liberalism could—and should—be saved.
George Scialabba
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January 18, 2023
Was the True Meaning of Capitalism Forgotten?
A conversation with historian Michael Sonenscher about the tricky task of defining capitalism and his new book, Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word.
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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January 9, 2023
Hannah Arendt Was Really a Prophet Against Conformity
To the question of how totalitarian methods could ever draw the compliance of free citizens, she replied: through the enchantment of success.
David Bromwich
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December 14, 2022
Reading Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble” in the Age of Ron DeSantis
More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say.
Naomi Gordon-Loebl
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November 29, 2022
Nancy Fraser’s Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism
She talked to The Nation about capitalism’s evolutions and what the left can do to better prepare for the next political crisis.
Rhoda Feng
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November 18, 2022
The Democrats Have a Crypto Problem
The high costs of taking money from Sam Bankman-Fried.
Jeet Heer
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November 3, 2022
How Saidiya Hartman Changed the Study of Black Life
A conversation with writer about her pathbreaking book Scenes of Subjection and how our understanding of race has changed in the last two decades.
Elias Rodriques
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October 28, 2022
How Useful Is Theory In Moments of Crisis?
A conversation with sociologist Dylan Riley about the state of left politics, defending social theory as a political tool, and his new book Microverses.
Ishan Desai-Geller
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October 27, 2022
The Shadows of Stanley Cavell
A posthumous collection of essays, Here and Now: Sites of Philosophy, reveals both what was insightful and what was profoundly lacking in the project of ordinary language philosophy.
John-Baptiste Oduor