Heteropessimism holds that men and women are incapable of understanding one another, foreclosing the possibility of more equal, fulfilling relations between the genders. But romantic love may offer us a way out of a social order in which everyone loses.
Silicon Valley is increasingly embracing the narrative that the US is in an existential battle for technological dominance with China. The story is a convenient shield against efforts to rein in the tech industry’s power.
There’s a big gap between how progressive messaging is received by liberal, college-educated voters and working-class voters with no college degree. But there doesn’t have to be, if the Left appeals to those working-class voters the right way.
It can be tempting for socialists to look to the House Freedom Caucus as a model for how to operate within Congress. But the story of the HFC shows that obstructionism can actually isolate a caucus instead of winning a leading role for it.
Much of the Left has been debating “Woke 1” recently. Less discussed has been the Right’s own version of wokeness, characterized by censorship, attacks on free speech, and even jailing and deporting critics.
Inspired in part by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City, a new crop of socialist candidates is campaigning for municipal power across Canada.
America is suffering from a complete breakdown in social life and shared conception of the common good. Some prominent liberals want to keep it that way.
Democratic socialists have a historic opportunity to make socialism a mass politics that wins over millions. We can’t take full advantage of that opportunity without carefully calibrating our rhetoric and demands.
A disturbing New York magazine story on an Andrew Tate devotee’s alleged sex trafficking sheds light on Tate’s entrepreneurial core, red-pill ideology’s brutal gendered hierarchy, and how intrasexual status competition affects male domination.
China’s university entrance exam is one of the most competitive in the world — a reflection of the cutthroat reality of the country’s labor market.
India’s civil liberties groups are largely made up of “concerned citizens” rather than the most oppressed groups in society. Their role in defending basic constitutional rights is increasingly under attack from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Soon after 9/11, world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein warned that US imperial decline was inevitable. But US leaders didn’t want to hear that their glory days were in the past, and they’ve managed that decline in the worst possible way.