The Making of the Teenager
The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.
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Sectarianism Has Never Ended a War
Amid the horrors of war, it’s always tempting for some on the Left to stake out more and more radical sloganeering. This was a dead end during the Vietnam War — mass action was not.
A Simple Demand: No Aid to Israel
Now is the moment for a presidential candidate who commits to cutting off all aid to Israel — whether it’s military or nonmilitary.
Israel Has Nuclear Weapons. It May Use Them.
There is little sign that Israel is achieving its war aims against Iran. But Israel is the only state in the region with nuclear weapons — and it may use them if it feels like it has run out of options.
In the New Geo-Economic Order, Price Shocks Are Here to Stay
The US-Israel war with Iran has made energy prices soar across the globe. In a world increasingly dominated by imperial war and great-power conflicts, inflation will become an ordinary feature of politics.
How Will the Future Judge Our Own Gilded Age?
At the end of the Gilded Age, Edwin Markham’s poem “The Man with the Hoe” became an ideological litmus test, polarizing the American public between an allegiance to either workers or the oligarchy in an age of massive inequality surpassed only by our own.
When the Pencil Was the Sword
When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.
Colleen Hoover’s Awful Hollywood Reign Has Only Just Begun
Reminders of Him is exactly the movie novelist Colleen Hoover set out to make — which is the problem.
A Missed Opportunity for the French Left
First-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the center-left establishment and France Insoumise.
Vilfredo Pareto’s Sociology of a Ruling Class in Decline
Vilfredo Pareto once observed that history was a “graveyard of aristocracies” as ruling elites gradually become decadent, depraved, and dysfunctional. The contemporary United States is a disturbingly neat fit for Pareto’s model.
Why the Left Misreads Gen Z — and What the Right Sees Clearly
Leftists have celebrated the growing favorability of socialism among young people, but youth politics are more heterodox than they appear.
Silicon Valley Is Drifting Farther and Farther Right
Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.