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Feeling Paranoid: Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the Terror of Difference

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Feeling Paranoid

Phyllis Schlafly, Trump, and the terror of difference.

Vivian Gornick

Poetry

Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump

No poet captures the feeling of political failure—of having lost an unfair fight—like W. B. Yeats.

Stephen Burt

Did you stagger back to her
or did you float
Did you wheel into that decade
once madly lost

Poetry

On Surmising

Joanna Klink

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Podcast

Under Western Eyes

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

John Bowen, Aziz Rana

Global Justice, Politics

Garrison America and the Threat of Global War

The crisis of liberal capitalism has arrived, bringing us to the brink of total global war.

Alex de Waal

Politics

The New Politics of Hope

Where Trump whipped up faith in authoritarianism, Sanders revived hope in collective action. Sustaining that vision of social progress is the central task of the left today.

Ronald Aronson

Race

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Walter Johnson

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Gender & Sexuality, Politics

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Global Justice, Politics

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