Thomas Piketty’s Case For ‘Participatory Socialism’
The French economist Thomas Piketty is arguably the world’s greatest chronicler of economic inequality. For decades now, he has collected huge data sets documenting the share of income and wealth that...
7 Kesä 20221h 1min
A Conservative's View on Democrats' Biggest Weakness
“There is definitely a contest for the future of the center right,” says Reihan Salam, the president of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. In his telling, one side in this contest is ...
3 Kesä 20221h 16min
Sex, Abortion and Feminism, as Seen From the Right
For decades, the conservative position on abortion has been simple: Appoint justices who will overturn Roe V. Wade. That aspiration is now likely to become reality. The question of abortion rights wil...
31 Touko 20221h 25min
Best Of: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History
What does it mean to reckon with the violence, the tragedy, and the numerous contradictions of America? That is the focus of this conversation – originally aired in July of 2021 – with Nikole Hannah-J...
27 Touko 20221h 17min
A Conversation With Ada Limón, in Six Poems
“One of the biggest things about poetry is that it holds all of humanity,” the poet Ada Limón tells me. “It holds the huge and enormous and tumbling sphere of human emotions.”When the news feels sod...
24 Touko 20221h 17min
The Ethics of Abortion
When Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked a few weeks ago, it signaled that Roe v. Wade appears likely to be overturned in a matter of weeks. If ...
20 Touko 20221h 12min
Anne Applebaum on What Liberals Misunderstand About Authoritarianism
The experience of reading Hannah Arendt’s 1951 classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism” in the year 2022 is a disorienting one. Although Arendt is writing primarily about Nazi Germany and Stalinist Ru...
17 Touko 20221h 2min
What Does the ‘Post-Liberal Right’ Actually Want?
“It begun to dawn on many conservatives that in spite of apparent electoral victories that have occurred regularly since the Reagan years, they have consistently lost, and lost overwhelmingly to progr...
13 Touko 20221h 37min
