National divides are so key to Spain’s politics that far-right party Vox even proposes to ban pro-independence parties. For the Catalan left, today’s election is about resisting Spanish nationalist forces who want to crush their autonomy.
Head of one of the biggest far-left groups in 1970s Britain, Gerry Healy was accused of rape and sexual abuse. A new biography reflects on the swamp from which he emerged — and how his group’s authoritarian model facilitated his crimes.
Why focus on laws and regulations aimed at controlling sex workers rather than recognizing their agency?
On the rise and fall of the Baffler.
What you should read this week.
A discussion with Ashwin Parameswaran.
Our next issue will be mailed to subscribers on August 16 and released online on September 2.
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by the privileged, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers supported the war effort. That memory is wrong.
In his new book, Ben Davis’s arguments too often take the form of smug, self-righteous dismissals that convey only disapproval.
Friedman fires more volleys of cliche into the densely packed prejudices of his readers.
Obama has a peculiar view of class struggle and progress.
When leftists set themselves up as defenders of government against libertarian hostility to the state, they unwittingly accept the Right’s framing of the debate.
There’s a reason conservative critics want to limit the study of literature to aesthetic experience: any further analysis might become a gateway to a political awareness they fear.
Like other social democratic parties around the world, Canada’s New Democratic Party has fully embraced its shift to the right.
Rick Perlstein is a master chronicler of American political absurdity. But explaining Reagan and the Right requires more than a catalog of the absurd.
The response to Charlie Hebdo shows French republicanism’s blindness to structural racism.
In giving an intellectual sheen to the religious right's bigotry, Harry Jaffa helped build the modern conservative movement.
Fifty years after its release, the Moynihan Report is still being used to attack the black poor.
