John Michael Colón’s excellent essay on democratic socialism and the contemporary American left centers around George Orwell’s Animal Farm. As Colón writes, the book is mainly known as a warning […]

Image by Mark Dillman via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez_July_2018.jpg) Over the last several years I’ve tried to resist comparisons between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and […]

The Point Magazine was kind enough to invite me to participate in a series of reflections on the 2018 midterms. My thoughts on voting after moving from Paris to Chicago […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week became the Democratic nominee and presumptive winner in the NY14 congressional race. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America—a left-wing organization whose membership […]