The Free World: Art And Thought In The Cold War By Louis Menand • Farrar, Straus & Giroux • 2021 • 857 pages • $35 During George W. Bush’s presidency, the linguist George Lakoff identified freedom as ...

Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to provide publicly and which to relegate to the realm of individual responsibility. Over the past five ...

The smartest tax doesn’t have to raise a lot of revenue to do social good. The point of a carbon tax, for example, is to ...

With the end of the Cold War, a wave of optimism emerged that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes would soon give way to democratic ones. United States foreign policy sought to encourage that trend ...

A year ago at this time we were all flying high, eagerly preparing to meet the challenges of “the middle-out moment.” Then came November’s brutal election. But while our spirits may have crashed, the ...

For as long as the editors of this journal can remember, the broad left has been on the back foot about taxes. Barack Obama in 2012 said that “if you make less than $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of ...

Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...

The income tax is a landmark progressive innovation of the last century, and it is under attack from multiple sides.

January 2021 was a very long year ago. Then, many of us who have long advocated for a post-neoliberal economics were increasingly optimistic. Joe Biden, as a newly elected President, embraced and ...

Like so many others, I knocked on a lot of doors this fall—each day my worry growing that the Democrats might come up short. In a trailer park in southern Pennsylvania, two white women seethed about ...

The Democratic Party is often described as a “big tent,” a coalition bound by the principle of inclusion. That tent today includes everyone from the Squad to Never Trump ex-Republicans, small farmers ...

Not because I disagree that American democracy is under assault and we need to take action, but because there’s a world of ...