From Mourning to Solidarity
How Dorothee Soëlle’s theology of suffering helps draw out mourning’s political possibilities.
Liberal Socialism Is a Philosophy of Hope
An Interview with Matthew McManus on his most recent book and the virtues of the liberal socialist tradition.
Freedom’s False Promises
At its core, what we are lacking is a power analysis—a clear, honest account of who holds power, how they wield it, and at whose expense. Without this analysis, we are left to blame ourselves for the conditions we live in: economic precarity for the working majority, escalating threats to civil rights based on gender, sex, and race, and the climate crisis that threatens our collective future.
Remembering MacIntyre’s Marxism and his Struggle against the Perils of Capitalism
MacIntyre never departed from his Marxist influence. He understood Marx as part of a long genealogy of philosophers who helped us think critically about the human condition, and about imagining life beyond capitalism.
Pope Francis Should be Remembered for his Tireless Advocacy for the Environment, Refugees, Global Peace, and Workers
Nobody can reliably predict the long-term legacy of Pope Francis. He will most probably be remembered many decades and even centuries hence as a creative innovator and as a guardian of Catholic social justice advocacy, faithful to the strong commitments of his papal predecessors over the previous century.
What Economic Democracy Could Do for the Endangered Future of Political Democracy
Joerg Rieger argues that a true democracy would require not only political power, but economic power. Accountable to the divine, it is the responsibility of religious institutions and actors to organize for a world with more economic democracy.
Asking the Earth to Bear the Burden of Heaven: An Interview with Mohamed Amer Meziane
Colton Bernasol interviews Mohamed Amer Meziane on his recently translated States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization. Their conversation covers the theological roots of modern imperialism, the relationship between empire and the environment, and the undergirding influence of race in European imperial aspirations.
Race, Class, and My Place on the American Left
Writer and ICS Board Member Talique Taylor calls upon socialists to recognize that the enduring social structure of race can be neither ignored nor dismissed in the attempt to build a socialist mass movement.
Jürgen Habermas Calls for Realizing the Ideals of Modernity, not Rejecting Them
The great European philosopher Jürgen Habermas has recently published an ambitious three volume history of philosophy, the first two volumes of which are now available in English. Matt McManus argues they offer nothing less than a sprawling and meditative defense of the ideals of modernity.
A Case for the Politics of Love
Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change.