Booked is a series of interviews about new books. In this edition, William P. Jones talks to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, the author of Reconsidering Reparations (Oxford University Press). The idea of paying ...

That the public sector must be massively mobilized in the fight against climate change has long been a bugbear of the right. But the failure to conceive of just how large a role the federal government ...

The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile. Marcelo Casals ▪ December 22, ...

In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put ...

Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to discuss his new book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. We’re all anxious, and none of us can pay attention.

NYRB Classics, 2019, 120 pp. In the spring of 1968, as an undergraduate at Harvard, I took a course on the English Revolution taught by Michael Walzer, then a young professor in the government ...

Matt and Sam talk to historian Erik Baker about his new book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America. This is a fascinating episode that takes up figures that the ...

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power. Bob Master ▪ October ...

117th Congress, 2nd Session, 814 pp. When we imagine what it means to live through a political crisis, most of us probably summon visions of extremity: assassinations and coups, depressions and ...

The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year threatens to loosen the tightest U.S. labor market in decades. What would it look like if policymakers consolidated workers’ ...

Everyone’s talking about inflation following the Federal Reserve’s announcement of the biggest interest rate increase in twenty years. But what actually is inflation? What causes it, how does it ...

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Nick Serpe spoke to Gabriel Winant, the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt ...