Author Q&A with Quinn Slobodian on Hayek’s Bastards
What is behind the contemporary Far Right’s recent ascent? This deceptively simple question animates historian Quinn Slobodian’s latest book, completing a trilogy in his intellectual history of…
The Political Convergence of Conservative Catholics and Protestants in the 1980s American Right
An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “traditional” families in the 80s.
Isaac Kamola discusses the findings from his report Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, and how anticolonial theory and organizing lessons can guide strategies to block far-right forces.
From a deeply-rooted historical analysis through to the sharp decline into precarity under neoliberalism to pandemic-induced unemployment, we traced the ways in which the capitalist class keep Americans poised on the precipice of ruin and isolation.
Right now, we are living in a global period of democratic decline and the rise of authoritarianism. From Moscow to Manila, from Brasilia to Budapest, from Warsaw to Washington, D.C., authoritarian…
Introduction In many ways, all eyes are on Chicago. The city increasingly finds itself at the epicenter of multiple discourses of violence and safety – from hubristic Presidential tweets claiming…
It’s not by chance that the U.S. is full of hollowed-out urban centers. Residents are disproportionately poor and people of color, surrounded by wealthier and Whiter suburbs. It traces back to the Great Migration, which brought great numbers of African Am
How Prison Ministries Prioritize Salvation Over Justice
As bipartisan reform efforts have steadily drifted rightward, the heavy hand of evangelicals in prison reform efforts has created new kinds of problems.
On June 8, 2017, the California Board of State and Community Corrections announced the reallocation of $103 million in savings resulting from the passage of 2014’s Proposition 47 criminal justice sentencing reforms.