Power (Social sciences)

Power Failure

by Andrew Cockburn,

The unseen obstacles to progressive reform

Mistaking Identity

by Francis Fukuyama,

From Liberalism and Its Discontents, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Modern democracies are facing a deep cognitive crisis. For many years now, societies have…

Mop Boss

by Brian Klaas,

From Corruptible, a book of non-fiction, which was published in November 2021 by Scribner. 1. Steve Raucci was far from the top of the district pecking order. He made $37,500…

Too Big, Too Frail

by Jacqueline Rose,

From On Violence and On Violence Against Women, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The times we live in oblige any feminist to reckon with…

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…

The Other Whisper Network

by Katie Roiphe,

How Twitter feminism is bad for women

Paper Pushers

by Studs Terkel, Daniel Ellsberg,

studs terkel: Your name is known to quite a few Americans these days. You let the country and the world know about a series of documents called the Pentagon Papers.…

The fatal center

by Thomas Frank,

Ignoble Liars

by Earl Shorris,

Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the philosophy of mass deception

To have and have not

by Michael Lind,

Notes on the progress of the American class war

Power, freedom, and the failure of theory

by John P. Diggins,