2014
The Past, Present, and Future of the American Left
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Retelling a liberalist story of America’s founding will never yield what we need: a self-aware Left with a proper conception of capitalism.
2013
Identity Politics is Not Enough: Why the Left Needs Universalism to Survive
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We need identity politics: we need voices that speak for the pain of particular experiences and situations, and for the absences in pretended universals. But let us not mistake those voices for the kind of comprehensive understanding that alone can contest the illegitimate and often destructive power that rules this country and much of the globe.
2012
Why America Needs a Left
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The United States today should be engaged in a great debate, not so much over who the next president will be, or over the role of government in economic life, but over the very identity and future orientation of the country itself. On the one hand, powerful right-wing voices argue that America is an essentially conservative country. On the other hand, other voices, led by the president, argue that “there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America!” implying that we are an essentially centrist country.