Politics Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/politics/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:38:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Politics Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/politics/ 32 32 Arendt’s Refugee Politics https://www.publicbooks.org/arendts-refugee-politics/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:53:29 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=61054 One of Arendt’s most surprising insights is that professing “love for the X people” may be a way to foreclose on freedom and on humanity just as effectively as professing “hatred for the Y people.”

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]]> With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere https://www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tech-the-border-is-everywhere/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60540 Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.

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]]> Once upon a Time in Tenoxtitlan https://www.publicbooks.org/once-upon-a-time-in-tenoxtitlan/ Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60312 Two novels published in 2024 return to some of the best-known, canonical figures and episodes from Mexico’s past.

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]]> “No Future”: A Lexicon https://www.publicbooks.org/no-future-a-lexicon/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60235 If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?

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]]> In the Führerbunker with Carlyle and Yarvin https://www.publicbooks.org/in-the-fuhrerbunker-with-carlyle-and-yarvin/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60113 Curtis Yarvin—and, through him, arguably, Thomas Carlyle—has now emerged as a significant source of ideas for the present administration.

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]]> 2 Angry Men: On Eastwood, Trump, and the Law https://www.publicbooks.org/2-angry-men-on-eastwood-trump-and-the-law/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:00:06 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60020 In attacking law without attacking the real abuses of the criminal justice system, Juror #2 is a groundless assault on the only institution that can save us from all-out authoritarian rule.

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]]> After the Deluge: What Future for Climate Fiction? https://www.publicbooks.org/after-the-deluge-what-future-for-climate-fiction/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:00:11 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59923 Even in a world remade, the past defines the present.

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]]> “Lying in Politics”: Hannah Arendt’s Antidote to Anticipatory Despair https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/ Wed, 21 May 2025 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59703 Four months in, the new Trump administration is already moving from self-deception and deception on to “image making” and “ideologizing”; it is fast approaching complete “defactualization.”

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]]> Civility and/or Social Change? https://www.publicbooks.org/civility-and-or-social-change/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58842 “Agreeing to disagree” requires tolerating the intolerable.

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]]> The Fight for Justice Starts with Blocking Judges Who Are “Tough on Crime” https://www.publicbooks.org/the-fight-for-justice-starts-with-blocking-judges-who-are-tough-on-crime/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57607 The story of how Ed Carnes became a judge offers crucial lessons for those who hope to unwind the policies of mass incarceration.

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