World Run Aground

Leonard Benardo is Vice President of the Open Society Foundations and Director of its Ideas Workshop. His intellectual background is in Eurasian geopolitics and society, though his interests span all continents. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and Prospect, among others. Benardo is author (with Jennifer Weiss) of Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents and Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names.

• AGAINST THE CURRENT 1. Human Rights on the Edge, Nicholas Bequelin 2. Is It All About Power?: A Response to “Human Rights on the Edge”, LuHan Gabel 3. Further Thoughts: A Rejoinder to LuHan Gabel, Nicholas Bequelin First Principles, Aryeh Neier 4. The Moral Economy of the Far Right, Miri Davidson 5. The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn From China, Kaiser Kuo 6. A New Dependency Theory Moment, Marcos Nobre 7. Why Identity is Failing—and Can’t be Abandoned, Tessy Schlosser 8. Social Democracy After Class?, Bhaskar Sunkara 9. Social Democracy, Immigration, and the Working Class, Sohrab Ahmari 10. The 2024 Nobel Laureates Are Not Only Wrong About China, but Also About the West, Yuen Yuen Ang 11. Disaster Capitalism Revisited Isabella M. Weber 12. The New Legislators of Silicon Valley Evgeny Morozov 13. Intellectual Historians Confront the Present: An Interview with Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Leonard Benardo PLACES 14. An Inescapable Past Shehryar Fazli 15. Sudan and the Silence of the Activists, Nesrine Malik 16. Goodbye, Gibbon, Iza Ding 17. India and America: A Certain Ambivalence, Basharat Peer 18. Peronism Now, Jordana Timerman 19. Tunisia: When Obsolete Anti-imperialism Kills Democracy, Nadia Marzouki MEDITATIONS 20. Flights of the Intelligentsia, Leonid Ragozin 21. My New York Intellectuals, Tomiwa Owolade 22. Writing from the Vortex of War, Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq 23. Lasching Out, Soli Özel 24. Rethinking Foreign Aid (From the Inside), Almut Rochowanski 25. Malaparte!, Gary Indiana 26. The Return of the Future and the Last Man: An Interview with Ivan Krastev, Carlos Bravo Regidor

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