Activists on the Left have more to worry about than just police infiltration and surveillance campaigns.
Category Archive: the Left
The US government has long repressed the Left, often violently, but covert infiltration helped fracture progressive movements psychologically.
The Left once tried to own the legacy of America’s Bicentennial, but ran into ideological and structural roadblocks all too familiar today.
One former PhD student’s harrowing experience points to an opaque and capricious system.
Robinson’s “baggy monster” of a novel offers a daring and kaleidoscopic view of how humanity might actually grapple with impending climate catastrophe.
When does the act of acknowledging your own complicity in an unjust system start to look like an empty gesture? Aaron Colton considers the work of Jia Tolentino.
If Marx and Engels were right that capitalism creates “its own grave-diggers,” then the most revolutionary of these grave-diggers are the colonized people—the women, the children, the minorities, the immigrants, and the people of color.
We often trip over historical analogies when trying to interpret the present. But the French writer offered a different way of thinking about time.