This article examines two conflicting perspectives on home cooking in Cold War America. The 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow featured a vocal exchange between Richard Nixon and his Soviet rival Nikita Khrushchev, during a tour of a model American home. In contrast, humorist Peg Bracken’s 1960, argued that American women could pursue a lifestyle and self-identity that didn’t focus on daily meals or culinary panache. Bracken differed from mainstream food writers and political ideologues, insisting that cooking was a tedious chore that should be side-stepped whenever possible.

This article examines the contradictions of the capitalist system, particularly its exploitation of labor, humans, and nature, as the root cause of the global polycrisis. It argues that energy transition projects, when not anchored in an internationalist and just ecological transition paradigm, can lead to material conflicts between domestic interests and those on the periphery of the system.

Relative wealth inequality between countries of the North and South has not improved since the era of decolonization, yet the LIO's economic regime has scarcely been challenged since the 1970s' New International Economic Order. This paper seeks to explain this puzzle by theorizing and empirically tracking a pervasive pattern of rhetorical “domestication” through which wealth inequality was framed as a domestic instead of an international problem.

This article formalizes two central propositions attributed to the feminist Anna Doyle Wheeler: high levels of social welfare require gender equality; and gender equality requires a cooperative economic system. This study explicates the reasoning for the second proposition using Wheeler’s insights into social psychology and her understanding of cooperative institutions. Identifying and constructing decentralized, self-governing, and commonly owned institutions that embody Wheeler’s broad principles remains a challenge.

This essay examines the expression of emotional states by frontline medics in the American Revolutionary War to understand how doctors felt about their role as caregivers during the Canada Campaign of 1775–76 and the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition of 1779. The journals of two doctors who expressed resentment and grief towards the officer corps during the invasion, Samuel Fisk Merrick and Lewis Beebe, are considered.

Chike Jeffers’ cultural constructivism provides the strongest and most persuasive contemporary articulation of the idea that culture is essential to race. It shows that it is possible to conceive of race in such a way that culture is essential to it and makes clear why such a conception might be attractive. Conceiving of race without culture is more parsimonious and less liable to mischief and mystification.

This essay uses a building named after the eminent Anthropologist Alfred Kroeber—and recently unnamed, but not yet renamed—as the point of departure for exploring the various arguments for unnaming, as well as preserving names on buildings. Along the way, it investigates issues of what constitutes history or institutional memory, whether toponyms can be understood as free speech, and how institutions use unnaming to perform cultural work that is only peripherally about memory.

Following the 2007–8 financial crisis, far-Right conservatives advanced a reactionary political turn, seeking to replace the prevailing political order, what Nancy Fraser calls “progressive neoliberalism,” with an overtly exclusionary and rapacious form of capitalism. This article investigates how entrepreneur Peter Thiel sought to shape this transition, adopting a messianic rhetoric to return capitalism to its essential principles.

The core of the realist argument for socialism is simply an extension of a primary justification for political democracy: because of sinful human nature, power needs countervailing forces. Decentralized economic democracy achieves this by distributing power widely. Markets do the same by decentralizing decision-making and enabling selfishness to be “harnessed” and yet “contained” by social ownership. Christian socialism can thus be understood as not only compatible with realism but as the logical outworking of realism.

This article analyses the role of early radical and socialist texts in forming the understanding of the Paris Commune in Britain and the United States. It includes examination of the radical publishers in both countries to explore how these texts were edited and changed, and how they were circulated to reach the intended working-class audience.