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Taking White Interests Seriously?
By Roger BerkowitzIsaac Chotiner of The New Yorker interviews Eric Kauffman about his new book Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities. Kauffman’s book looks analyzes a double insight...
05-26-2019
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Friendship Versus Banality
George Prochnik explores the deep friendship between Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem.06-04-2017
Justice Thomas' Racial Fatalism
The Supreme Court this week ruled that two gerrymandered districts in North Carolina were unconstitutional because they were impermissibly drawn on racial grounds to dilute the vote of black Americans.05-28-2017
Words That Mean Nothing
Masha Gessen, who will be speaking at the Hannah Arendt Center Conference on "Crises of Democracy," turns to Hannah Arendt to understand Donald Trump's assault on language and our common world.05-21-2017
People's Assemblies
Kate Aronoff interviews Chokwe Antar Lumumba, who will likely be the next Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Lumumba is an advocate of bringing "people's assemblies" back into government, a new way to rethink the idea of self-government.05-14-2017