Every issue has one section dedicated to a particular question. Collecting responses from a range of perspectives, these symposia prompt us to think about the values and ideas that shape our most urgent cultural and personal decisions.
Beyond Equality
What I’m about to say is going to seem like a bad joke: the trouble with the left is its egalitarianism.
Live in Society!
Discovering class consciousness is itself a social practice, where people form communities through a constant feedback loop of desire, self-inquiry and action.
Radical Eudaimonism
The choice is not between growth and degrowth but capital growth and rational growth.
Serpents in the Garden
With one misstep, one slip off balance, the invitation to think becomes instead a theater of gesture, a drama of recognition and vengeance playing out…
The Left Case for Great Books
A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for…
Freedom of Intelligence
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and…
Clocked Out
Writing off the average American worker as either a naïve dupe or an embattled burnout is reductive, an easy intellectual out. It skirts the messier…
Make Nothing that Isn’t Beautiful
For us who follow in the wake of the twentieth-century avant-gardes, Morris’s challenge remains our challenge, his dream our dream.
