The left tends to dismiss corporate pandering to identity politics as insincere and inconsequential. It does so at its peril.
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Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Garry Wills, human nature, how and whether to interview conservatives, Nixon, Bob Dylan, and bourbon.
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A rising star on the intellectual right joins Matt and Sam for a conversation on where the right and left might agree, and—especially—where they do not.
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Join us on Thursday, December 16 for a live episode of Belabored.
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The world’s richest countries have undermined the international cooperation we need to end this pandemic.
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The second National Conservatism conference showed that the ideology has moved into the mainstream of the American right.
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The oil company hopes that the imprisonment of Steven Donziger has a chilling effect on environmental litigation. But it might have galvanized a new generation to take on the fossil fuel industry.
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In his new book The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope.
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Sadé Dozan of Caring Across Generations discusses the Build Back Better bill, which would put some $150 billion into Medicaid-supported homecare services.
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An interview with Derecka Purnell, the author of Becoming Abolitionists, about what makes communities unsafe—and how she went from calling 911 to fighting for abolition.
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A deep dive into the life and work of Frank S. Meyer, the longtime senior editor at National Review who became most famous for his theory of “fusionism,” which combined the traditional and libertarian strains of the conservative movement.
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Historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz unpack the American right’s ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
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The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration that are still with us today.
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The results of the 2020 Democratic primaries suggest the limits of a left strategy for power starting at, rather than building toward, the presidency.
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Occupy Wall Street was the critical event in the formation of a novel anticapitalist intellectual milieu.
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National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.
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A new art project uses the legal system of mineral rights as a means to block oil and gas extraction.
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What does it feel like to imagine the future as climate catastrophe looms?
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If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed little or nothing.
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Historians have amply demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation and reformation of the United States. But many of those same ideas and institutions have also been vital to combating white supremacy.
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William F. Buckley Jr. biographer Sam Tanenhaus digs into the National Review founder’s 1965 run for mayor of New York City.
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For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.
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The July 11 protests fused economic and political grievances. A struggle is taking place in Cuba over what happens next.
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An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”
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Liberal appeals to truth will not stop fascists.
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The best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.
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The material causes of racial inequality can be overcome only with massive economic distribution.
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If the Biden administration were serious about helping workers to build power, it would push back against the Republican governors who are ending pandemic unemployment programs early.
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Since the Nixon era, the Supreme Court’s treatment of poverty and racial justice has made it a consistent enemy of society’s most marginalized.
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In the face of COVID-19, the political response has been at best temporary relief and at worst indifference. What we need going forward is not just better public health measures, but a response to the economic insecurities and policy failures that it laid bare.
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