Newsletter

Restoring the Bipartisan Consensus

Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris, who has always toed the AIPAC line on Israel/Palestine, is part of the campaign’s pitch that polarization can be undone.

Joshua Leifer September 15, 2020

New York Socialists in the Legislature—and Out

Five socialists are headed to the New York state legislature. The story of the five socialists elected in 1919 provides a sobering warning.

Joshua B. Freeman September 11, 2020

Depatriarchalizing Judaism

On the 30th anniversary of her groundbreaking book Standing Again at Sinai, feminist theologian Judith Plaskow discusses the choice to remain within a patriarchal religious framework.

Susan Reimer-Torn September 10, 2020

American Anti-Communism Abroad

Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method, discusses the legacy of US intervention in Indonesia and Brazil.

Noah Kulwin September 9, 2020

The Only Protest They’d Accept

Discussions over brunch.

Eli Valley September 8, 2020

We went through days . . .

“We went through days as if we went through wind-blown gardens.”

Anna Margolin September 4, 2020

Inheriting the Impossible

Historian Beshara Doumani, who holds the first endowed faculty chair in Palestinian studies at an American university, discusses his work and the shifting campus climate on Palestine.

Gabi Kirk September 3, 2020

When Torture Is a Health Precaution

Across the country, prisons are using solitary confinement as a quarantine measure, at great cost to prisoners.

Christopher Blackwell September 1, 2020