The Wisconsin Idea

Culture

These Black Bookstores Are Committed to the Fight for Freedom

Featuring a new foreword by the late Nikki Giovanni and interviews with Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Noname, Prose to the People spotlights the unyielding resilience of Black bookstores.

Katie Mitchell

ViewpointPalestine

“Do Not Participate”: The Absurd Excuse Notre Dame Gave Me When They Canceled My Talk

What a tragedy when we cannot rely on universities to house our most critical conversations.

Eman Abdelhadi

ViewpointPalestine

More Than 1,800 Academics Say They Will Boycott Columbia—and the Number Is Growing

Columbia's acquiescence to Trump was disgraceful. As faculty, we demand better.

Jessica Halliday Hardie and Ajantha Subramanian

Culture

Chicago Embraces The Pillowman

With this year marking the 10th anniversary of Chicago’s Reparations Ordinance, longtime friends bring a cautionary tale to the stage.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

Palestine

Land of the Unfree?

As Mahmoud Khalil’s plight shows, U.S. democracy risks dying in the darkness of detention centers.

Alberto Toscano

Viewpoint

Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents

While the Trump administration targets hundreds over their constitutionally protected right to political speech, Democratic leadership and influential media pundits have largely stayed quiet.

Adam Johnson and Sarah Lazare

Culture

From Ruins to Renaissance: Syrian Artists Reclaim Freedom After Assad

Following more than five decades of repression under the Assad regime, these artists are seizing the moment of cultural revival.

Alessandra Bajec

LaborInterview

Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century

Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline.

Nick French

PalestinePolitics

The New Face of Christian Zionism

A rapidly growing Christian Right movement has become a driving force behind unqualified U.S.—and global—support for Israel.

Frederick Clarkson and Ben Lorber