The real scandal of the Epstein saga is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world. It’s that there is a billionaire class.

Matt and Sam talk to Bill Kristol about his journey from neoconservative thought leader to anti-Trump liberal.

The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.

Stephen Kinzer is one of the few mainstream voices reminding Americans of our imperial identity. In The True Flag, he takes us back to where he thinks it all began—1898, when the U.S. political class ...

The American Dream enjoins limitless social mobility. Class barriers don’t exist for it, or if they do they are so fluid as to be virtually without meaning. “From each according to his abilities … ” ...

There are many theories about why Primo Levi killed himself: the crushing aftermath of Auschwitz; depression; family troubles; the aftereffects of a surgery; despair over Holocaust denial. Pankaj ...

Matt and Sam talk to Matt Duss, a leading foreign policy expert on the left, about the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 6, 2026 Aftermath of ...

The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizational weakness of Iranian civil society—dynamics ...