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Like so many romantics, Scott mixed radical and conservative themes. No wonder he found appreciative readers across the political spectrum.

When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources. Like members of a fractious clan rushing to the family ...

Labor Day was the first national holiday that a social movement both created and persuaded the state and businesses to honor. Michael Kazin ▪ August 30, 2024 A lithograph of the 1882 Labor Day ...

Duke University Press, 2022, 296 pp. Tahir Hamut Izgil’s recent memoir, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, brings to life a cast of poets and intellectuals who used to meet under the cover of darkness, ...

The DNC showed a party that has successfully metabolized movement energy and insurgent campaigns while distancing itself from demands deemed harmful to its electoral prospects. Patrick Iber ▪ ...

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and ...

Make no mistake about it—the great American economy is stumbling over its feet. Between 1958 and 1962, according to the Council of Economic Advisers, the gap between what we produced and what we could ...

China’s social and intellectual spheres remain less monolithic than the tightly controlled public transcripts would suggest, and their possibilities deserve our continued attention. Is there any point ...

Matt and Sam interview Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ...