Elite (Social sciences)

The Silenced Majority

by Rana Dasgupta,

Can America still afford democracy?

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

by Thomas Frank,

And its eternal war on reform

Trumpism After Trump

by Thomas Meaney,

Will the movement outlive the man?

Trumpism After Trump

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Thomas Meaney on January 16, 2020

More than four more years? A look at the philosophy and die-hard adherents of National Conservatism

To Serve Is to Rule

by Doug Henwood,

Why we miss the WASPs

From Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, published this month by Simon and Schuster. Every quarter, the business leaders from Koch Industries’ various divisions…

A Play with No End

by Christopher Ketcham,

What the Gilets Jaunes really want

Nobody Knows

by Rebecca Solnit,

When I was eighteen, I spent several months working as a bus girl at a diner. It was a cheerful-looking place, facing San Francisco Bay. The kitchen was L-shaped: the…

On the Corner of Myth and Main

by Walter Kirn,

There was a time when I didn’t know that I lived in Middle America. When I was very young, growing up in eastern Minnesota, I thought I was just an…

The New Climate

by Bruno Latour,

By Bruno Latour, from The Great Regression, a collection of essays edited by Heinrich Geiselberger that will be published next month by Polity. Latour is a philosopher and the author, most…

Swat Team

by Thomas Frank,

The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform

Elite (Social sciences)

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The Silenced Majority

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

Trumpism After Trump

Trumpism After Trump

To Serve Is to Rule

Charles in Charge

A Play with No End

Nobody Knows

On the Corner of Myth and Main

The New Climate

Swat Team