Reordering the world

A leading scholar of British political thought explores the relationship between liberalism and empireReordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain—at the time the largest empire...

Rich people things

Keeping up with the American elite can be tiring. This is the layman's guide to how the wealthy maintain control.

Sin patrón

The inside story of Argentina's remarkable movement to create factories run democratically by workers themselves.

Soldiers in revolt

The definitive account of GI resistance to the Vietnam War. New introduction by Howard Zinn.

Suicide of the west

James Burnham’s 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world today by putting into focus the intangible, often vague doctrine of American liberalism. It parallels the loose...

Superpatriotism

How hype, fear, and mindless flag-waving are supplanting informed debate, commitment to democracy, and real patriotism.

Targeting iran

An invaluable primer on the US-Iran conflict by U.S. and Iranian scholars.

The american way of war

The creator of TomDispatch takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe.

The canadian kingdom

An integral part of Canada’s political culture, constitutional monarchy has evolved since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution. How has it shaped twenty-first-century Canada? How have views on the monarchy changed? Eleven experts on the history of Canada’s Crown take up these q...

The case for socialism (updated edition)

A clear, bold case for a socialist alternative to democratically meet people's needs here and abroad.

The civil war and the summer of 2020

Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years...

The demon in democracy

The dialectic is in the sea

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gend...

The fight for the republic

This book of three essays by Sitaram Yechury, the topmost leader of the Community Party in India, introduced by Prabhat Patnaik.

The long year

In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.

The pen and the sword

Interviews with the late Edward Said, world-renowned literary scholar, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights.

The point of no return

How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social orderAfter Donald Trump’s rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? New York Times columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that th...

The postwar economic order

Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar Europe. This book presents a collection of his reports about economic policy, early efforts at intra-European cooperation,...

The presidency of barack obama

An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historiansBarack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress...

The princeton history of american political thought

The ultimate guide to the thinkers and ideas that have shaped the United States, featuring essential primary sources introduced by leading scholarsThe Princeton History of American Political Thought showcases the defining voices and debates in U.S. political history, spanning from the 1600s to th...

The real economy

A provocative new theory of “the economy,” its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a “market sector,” a “general equilibrium,” or the “gross domestic product”? Economics today has become so preoccupied with methods that economists ...

The spirit of monarchy

William Hazlitt's essay on the ludicrousness of monarchy shows him at his best.

The stalinist legacy

Tariq Ali, Isaac Deutscher, Ernest Mandel, and others analyze the nature of Stalinism, and its continuing impact on world politics.

The struggle for palestine

Leading international solidarity activists offer insight into the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and justice. Includes Anthony Arnove, Naseer Aruri, David Barsamian, Paul D'Amato, Phil Gasper, Toufic Haddad, Tikva Honig-Parnass, Rania Masri, Tanya Reinhart, Edward Said, and Ahmed Shawki.

The transformation of american politics

The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government. Leading young scholars take u...

The united states of fear

With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.

The violence of organized forgetting

Blistering essays critiquing how constant crisis has given rise to a new authoritarianism that threatens democracy, personal liberty and education.

The western ideology and other essays

‘Capitalism may be teetering once again on the edge of a terminal crisis, but there are no gravediggers in sight. This time around not only are there no gravediggers there are no longer any rival economic systems either …’ In ‘The Western Ideology’ Andrew Gamble demonstrates the contradictions an...

Towards a libertarian socialism

Essays on labor and freedom.

Towards a political economy of ukraine

The essays in this book explore the major developments, both domestic and international, that shaped the first quarter-century of Ukraine’s independence: the simultaneous construction of a nation-state and the privatization of its economy; a formal democratization of the political process alongsi...

Trotsky's marxism and other essays

In this introduction to the politics of Leon Trotsky, British activist Duncan Hallas analyzes his thinking and its relevance for today in clear, sharp prose. Includes essential writings by Hallas about the development of Trotskyism after Trotsky’s assassination in 1940.

Unruly voices

A new collection by the author of The World We Want, with essays on civility, public space, Obama, procrastination, suicide.

Us politics in an age of uncertainty

Resisting Trump must begin with an honest accounting of how he came to power.

Uses of a whirlwind

A comprehensive overview of contemporary American social movements—from the people who built them.

Voices from the chinese century

Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world—past, present, and future. The voices in this volume include figures from each of China’s...

We need silence to find out what we think

This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite—or maybe...

What is a people?

Rethinking the terms we use to define a people.

Writings for a democratic society

The best of Tom Hayden's writings from the turbulent 1960s to the Iraq War.