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Hélène Landemore’s case for an alternative system of popular government.

For Haywood, a truly radical working-class politics in the United States also required a program of self-determination.

The transformation of a once promising, if conservative, magazine journalist into a conspiracy-minded talking head.

Separating out the myths and facts of AI.

Through Nkrumah’s story, Howard French charts the history of African decolonization and the American civil rights movement.

Separating out the myths and facts of AI.

How did the idea of the individual come into being?

A new book on the Biden’s wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy—as well as reckon with the one they had.

While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.

While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.

A new book on the Biden’s wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy—as well as reckon with the one they had.

What was it about Buckley that made him so attractive to liberals—and what was it about liberals that caused them to be attracted to conservative figures like Buckley in the first place?

While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not possible.

In Searches, Vauhini Vara probes the ways that we rely on the Internet and how we periodically attempt to free ourselves from its grip.

A new book on the Biden’s wars serves as a stark reminder that the Democrats need to formulate a new foreign policy—as well as reckon with the one they had.

What was it about Buckley that made him so attractive to liberals—and what was it about liberals that caused them to be attracted to conservative figures like Buckley in the first place?

In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?

One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.

In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?

Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.

Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.

He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.