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Jan 9, 2025 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: Few philosophers of the 20th century could match Adorno’s reputation for seeing the modern world in a totally pessimistic light. Your book argues that this view of him is wrong. But before we unpack your reasons why, can you first say something about the defining features of critical theory as developed at the Institute for Social Research—the famous school of German social theory that Adorno cofounded just over 100 years ago?
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Books & the Arts / October 22, 2024How Did the Democrats Get Here? Talking with Tim Shenk about party realignment, the tainted legacy of 1990s political consultants, the 2024 election, and his new book, Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics. Ad PolicyA sign at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
msn.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Kate Yoon
Books & the Arts / A conversation with Melinda Cooper about the recent history of neoliberalism and her new book Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Ad PolicyOver the last decade, the history of neoliberalism has received a great deal of attention, from David Harvey’s Marxist interpretation in A Brief History of Liberalism to Quinn Slobodian’s Globalist, which sees neoliberalism arising from the ruins of Europe’s fallen empires.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
msn.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Kate Yoon
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Thank you for reading The Nation!We hope you enjoyed the story you just read, just one of the many incisive, deeply reported articles we publish daily. Now more than ever, we need fearless journalism that moves the needle on important issues, uncovers malfeasance and corruption, and uplifts voices and perspectives that often go unheard in mainstream media.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Books & the Arts / Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades. Ad PolicyBranko Milanović’s Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War is an intellectual history of how leading economists since the 18th century, from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, have thought about income distribution and inequality.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Thank you for reading The Nation!We hope you enjoyed the story you just read. It takes a dedicated team to publish timely, deeply researched pieces like this one. For over 150 years, The Nation has stood for truth, justice, and democracy. Today, in a time of media austerity, articles like the one you just read are vital ways to speak truth to power and cover issues that are often overlooked by the mainstream media.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Books & the Arts / An interview with Jennifer Burns on her authoritative new biography of the American economist and the personal and intellectual origins of his theories. Ad PolicyMilton Friedman is widely regarded as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century.
