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In the early nineteen sixties, Irving Howe and Ralph Ellison crossed swords in an exchange of vehemently argued essays. Ellison’s half of the exchange remains handily available, “The World and the Jug ...

As a matter of economics, then, there is no reason that industrial policy has to involve us-against-them nationalism or ...

Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market. Fred Block ▪ Fall 2024 CIO Political ...

Our Fall 2024 issue features an article by Fred Block on “The Problem With a Job Guarantee.” Below are two responses to the article, along with a reply from Block. Jobs Are a Source of Meaning Fred ...

The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that ...

At the end of last year, a friend and I sat down to watch the 2002 Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy. Grant’s character is kind of a loser, one who does nothing all day but live off the royalties of a ...

It’s easy to come up with plans for remaking society. It’s much harder to work alongside ordinary people to build coalitions that can change the rules of the game. Timothy Shenk ▪ Fall 2024 My ...

It’s been a hard year for the Democrats. Well before concerns over President Joe Biden’s age rocked the presidential campaign, the party was forced to confront a grim political reality: voters did not ...

While some have argued that the Biden administration’s industrial policy offered too much to the private sector, these bills were designed to serve multiple constituencies. Nina Eichacker ▪ ...

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024, 720 pp. More than perhaps any other poet in New York in the 1930s and ’40s, Delmore Schwartz defined the direction of American letters. “Cosmopolitan, radical, at home ...