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Losing My Religion

by Kevin Baker,

In the Seventies, when I came of age politically, being a lefty was all about believing that “the people” would always save us, if they just knew the truth. We…

An Incoherent Truth

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer and critic with Marxist leanings, noticed a shift in the contours of popular intellectual debate. “Something is happening out there in the dark…

Lefty Lingo

by Lionel Shriver,

The only letter I’ve ever sent to the New York Times was in the 1980s, objecting to the paper’s suddenly pestilent use of “draconian.” During Iran–Contra the complaint must have…

Left of Europe

by Ashley Smith,

From an interview with Neil Davidson published in the Summer 2019 issue of New Politics. Davidson teaches at the University of Glasgow. His most recent book, We Cannot Escape History,…

Machine Politics

by Harper’s Magazine,

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

Machine Politics

by Fred Turner,

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

Four More Years

by Thomas Frank,

The Trump reelection nightmare and how we can stop it

Forget About It

by Corey Robin,

In the uneasy months following 9/11, the Bush Administration provoked a minor controversy when it announced the name of a new office dedicated to protecting the United States from terrorism…

The Minds of Others

by David Bromwich, Garth Greenwell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kelly Clancy, Laila Lalami, Mychal Denzel Smith, T. M. Luhrmann,

The art of persuasion in the age of Trump

Preaching to The Choir

by Rebecca Solnit,

Once, on a river-rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, I traveled with a charming, good-humored man who happened to run an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He liked…

Who’s Laughing Now?

by Tom Bissell,

The tragicomedy of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live

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Losing My Religion

An Incoherent Truth

Lefty Lingo

Left of Europe

Machine Politics

Machine Politics

Four More Years

Forget About It

The Minds of Others

Preaching to The Choir

Who’s Laughing Now?

October 2017

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