Let Them Eat Soccer
Anti–World Cup protests rage in Brazil, but political struggle has long known the beautiful game.
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New Atheism, Old Empire
The “New Atheists” have gained traction because they give intellectual cover to Western imperialism.
From Charleston to Rhodesia
Fights over both the Confederate and Rhodesian flags give us a glimpse into the reactionary mind.
When Iraq Was Clinton’s War
Bill Clinton's "quiet war" on Iraq set the stage for George W. Bush's bloody invasion.
Ending Their Wars
On Memorial Day, socialists honor the victims of war and struggle for a world free of it.
Smokey Bear, the UN, and Hitler
How Alex Jones won an audience for his idiosyncratic blend of conspiracy theory and libertarianism.
Trump’s Middle-Class Army
Trump's narrative of American decline has captured a bitter and embattled middle class.
Six Ways to Unsettle Colleagues and Irritate Administrators
We need to be uncivil to preserve academic freedom and take on the corporate university.
Hillary Clinton Is Running for President
In case you haven’t noticed ...
The Empire’s Amnesia
When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
From Trotsky to Buckley
James Burnham mutated from firebrand revolutionary to National Review co-editor, and today he is getting a second life all over the conservative press.
Trump After One
A Jacobin roundtable on Trump's first year in office.
The “Smart Imperialism” Crowd
A new diplomatic memoir makes a "national interest" case for warmer relations with Cuba.
Poets and Scoundrels of the Beautiful Game
As another World Cup begins, there is no better guide to its joys and iniquities than the late Eduardo Galeano — a lifelong fighter for justice and “beggar for good soccer.”
Richard Pipes, the Historian as Essentialist
For Richard Pipes, the anticommunist ideologue and historian, Soviet tyranny was rooted not in communism, but in the Russian soul.
The Jerry Lewis of International Diplomacy
Is Trump’s foreign policy the work of an incompetent ignoramus or a strategic genius? The answer may surprise you.
A Thousand Points of Shite
How George H. W. Bush paved the way for Trumpism.
The Worst Diplomat in the World
Jair Bolsonaro’s chief foreign policy architect is combining rabid nationalist rhetoric with pathetic submissiveness to the United States.
“Social Democracy at Home Requires Anti-Imperialism Abroad”
An internationalist, anti-imperialist vision has been all but abandoned by the Left. We need to rebuild that vision.