It’s easy to bemoan our “capitalist hellscape”—or use it to justify a soulless, obscenely lucrative job. But few Americans are willing to put in the hard work of being an actual anti-capitalist.

Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.

Trump, Biden, and other politicians are adopting military rhetoric to comfort Americans. But what they’re really saying is cause for worry.

Orwell understood the limits of mind control

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

In Texas and Florida, political activists are “living socialism” with their disaster-relief efforts.

How Trump is helping to revive the publishing industry.

The author of 'The Captive Mind' became a political thinker who didn’t like politics.

Why "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is not the book we need in the Trump era.

Orwellian echoes in Cleveland, where two plus two equals five.

Jonathan Franzen’s reckoning with his literary inheritance

Mad about Vlad!