By the spring of 2025, many had declared the student Palestine solidarity movement dead. Since Donald Trump’s election, the crackdown had been swift and merciless: Mahmoud Khalil, who had become the face of Columbia’s Gaza...
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Yanis Varoufakis I hope you will forgive me if I correct a basic misunderstanding that is embedded in the question in a way that is totally understandable. This is not how I saw or experienced...
Americans increasingly understand ourselves and our country through the lens of an urban versus rural divide. Yet this geographic framing, while politically potent, obscures a more fundamental fault line in our society: the division between...
In progressive and centrist circles, the publication of Abundance by Ezra Klein and David Thompson has been an event. According to the authors, the key problem with progressive economic policy is that it has been...
On Sunday, March 9, over 350,000 people crammed into Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, in repudiation of US president Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just days before, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the reaching of an...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick It’s a really tricky question, because right now we are seeing ICE go after people who have lived in the United States for a long time, not just recent migrants. Plenty of these...
Throughout the second half of the 1990s, a wave of articles published in the mainstream US media declared, with jolting regularity, the end of feminism. By then, the movement had grown used to obituaries. A...
The bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence began early for many Americans. On a chilly December morning in 1973, a reenactment of the Boston Tea Party, sponsored by the City of Boston, transformed into protests...
Review of Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking, 2024) Those who think that the Christian churches are responsible for all the ways in which Western society’s attitudes...
Review of The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne (Sutherland House, 2025) The internet philosophers who like to say that “nothing ever happens” would find plenty of support from recent Canadian politics. This spring’s...
There is an apparent paradox in Europe’s new militarized posture. On the one hand, the call to boost military spending has supposedly been motivated — in German chancellor Friedrich Merz’s words — by the need...
Review of The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir by Michael Ansara (Cornell University Press, 2025) Campus opposition to the Israeli military assault on Gaza, since the fall of 2023, has been quite triggering for veterans...
