“A yearend conversation.”

“A yearend conversation.”

The Scrum’s founding editors gather to look back and forward. This afternoon, our last of the year, we convened via Zoom to take a (not so fond) look back at the year that was. We spoke from Washington, Toronto, and…

"The Russia question."

“The Russia question.”

The Scrum’s James W. Carden converses with Thaddeus Russell. Shortly before Christmas I conversed for nearly two hours with Thaddeus Russell, the historian, podcaster, and author (A Renegade History of the United States, Free Press, 2011). The YouTube recording of…

"The great realignment II."

“The great realignment II.”

Populism and its enemies. This is the second of our two-part series on the ongoing American political realignment. In Part I we explored the historic backdrop of these momentous shifts. Here we consider alternatives to the neoliberal/fusionist consensus that has…

“Politics, tragedy, sovereignty.”

“Politics, tragedy, sovereignty.”

The meaning of today’s Russia. The Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy recently hosted a panel discussion on U.S.–Russia relations and Russia’s place in the world. The full video of this exchange, recorded December 2nd, is here: The discussion was moderated…

“The Great Realignment.”

“The Great Realignment.”

Shifts in political allegiance. As Democrats continue their transformation into the party of the 1 percent, Republicans appear poised to become the party of the working class. This profound shift in American politics, historic in proportion and significance, will have…