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El Akkad is not the first person to wrestle with the relation between writing and effective moral change. As far back as Aristotle, philosophers have wondered if the written word could meaningfully ...

Despite all this, Tolkien has many left-wing fans. They can point to his celebration of working-class heroes like Sam Gamgee over the more well-heeled and gentlemanly Frodo, his call for an ethics of ...

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Patrick Iber is co-editor of Dissent. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a ...

Just as in 2016, Harris supporters have fallen back on the racism and sexism of American society as an explanation for defeat. No doubt these are hulking obstacles, but they don’t suffice as omnibus ...

Sarah Jaffe Fall 2024 Wages for Housework poster made by Betsy Warrior (Library of Congress) Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O’Brien Pluto Press, 2023, 304 pp.

Class also allowed political economists to extrapolate the long-term trend in inequality from a simple model. Adam Smith, for instance, argued that growth was positively correlated with high wages and ...

Sanjay Ruparelia Spring 2024 Modi supporters at a 2014 rally in Rohaniya, India (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) In 2014, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party captured national power in the world’s ...