Chapter 21 (pp. 169–175) from The Reconstruction Papers.

Exploring the limits of politics, science, and religion in a nihilistic age

Keynes was a liberal for our age: morally serious, hopeful for a better future, and yet reconciled to the compromises necessary to preserve the fragile liberal order.

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A Review of Donald F. Kettl’s ‘The Right-Wing Idea Factory’

A review of Jeremy Adelman’s The Capitalist Era

The security and prosperity of nations does not depend on complete uniformity of thought, manners, or coloration.

A Review of Trevor Jackson’s The Insatiable Machine

A Review of Branko Milanović’s The Great Global Transformation

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A sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires

The current crisis of democracy was not inevitable, but a result of hubris and shortsightedness among generations of statesmen.

Liberalism and the Great Technological Divergence

A Review of Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics

Just as in a previous age of colonialism, today's neo-imperialists justify themselves in terms of "uplifting" inferior foreign peoples.

Democrats paid a price for forming their politics on Twitter; people on the right will pay a price for forming theirs on X.

We must begin the process of making our political rivals not just more legible but human in a way we can also recognize in ourselves.

Navigating the pitfalls of a DSA-liberal alliance.

Yet another example of how his nationalism prioritizes exclusion over veneration of what makes that nation great.

Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”

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Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.

Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.

John Adams' rocky presidency illuminates the long-running conflicts over how Americans conceive of the executive power.

John Adams' rocky presidency illuminates the long-running conflicts over how Americans conceive of the executive power.