Matt and Sam welcome back John Ganz to discuss René Girard, the Stanford polymath whose theory has inspired a devoted following—including Peter Thiel, Girard’s former student.
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The defeat of hardline national-Catholic rule was welcomed with euphoria by the big-tent opposition. The outcome for the Polish left is more ambiguous.
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After months of political battle, Bernardo Arévalo has become the president of Guatemala. His winning campaign was built on attacking the corruption of the institutions that tried to keep him from office.
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An interview with Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce.
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There is no such thing as “the global left”—but we should still talk about it anyway. Introducing our Winter 2024 special section.
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Marvel Studios has managed to recruit fans into rooting not just for its superheroes, but for the company’s business plan.
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A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world.
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The Mexican president has built his durable popularity by combining traditionally left- and right-wing policies and positions.
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The Israeli left after October 7.
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The former Die Linke politician’s new party embraces a model that has found purchase among sections of the left across the Global North: left-wing economics paired with a variety of political positions pulled from the right.
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The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.
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The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice rather than passive assurance that it would prevail.
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When we view federal authority as a bulwark for civil rights against local tyranny, we miss what the U.S. government has done to sustain white freedom both domestically and abroad.
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South Africa’s willingness to file a case with the International Court of Justice is a sign that the old tactics used to police discourse about genocide have lost much of their power.
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South Africa’s willingness to file a case with the International Court of Justice is a sign that the old tactics used to police discourse about genocide have lost much of their power.
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Matt and Sam are joined by historian Kim Phillips-Fein to discuss the historical scholarship on American conservatism. How has the study of the right changed since 2016? And how should the field orient itself to 2024?
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In the 1990s, neoliberalism was a kind of utopian program. What remains after the crises of the twenty-first century?
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The Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate is more conservative than his predecessor, but the best hope for progressive forces this Saturday is still a DPP victory.
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The UAE, host to the latest UN climate conference, showcases the vices that need to be vanquished if we’re going to have anything approaching a green society.
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Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills’s blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.
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Federal law enforcement is under pressure to launch specious terrorism investigations into pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, based solely on their public statements.
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Matt and Sam interview historian Jennifer Burns about her new biography of Nobel Prize–winning economist and libertarian intellectual Milton Friedman.
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Quick to make, quick to order, and quick to eat, platform foods expand workers’ mobility and compress the time they need to refuel.
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A discussion of Gary Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.
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Boosters have promoted prison construction on abandoned mine lands as a tool of economic development throughout Appalachia. New federal funding provides the opportunity for more sustainable and socially beneficial investments.
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For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
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Many urban governments have outsourced public services to private entities. In Washington, D.C., Uber enlisted the city for its own goals.
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The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.
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It is beyond our power to bring back those innocents whose lives have already been lost, but we can work to prevent the calamity that will surely follow if Israel continues to retaliate as it has so far.
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John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.
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