The Brooklyn Rail

Editor's Note

You Never Know

By Paul Mattick

It turned out that relatively few people were actually in the gig economy, though almost all work is indeed precarious.

The American Revolution: The George Floyd Rebellion, One Year Out

By Jason E. Smith

Now that the one-year anniversary of the events of late May and early June—crowned, dramatically, by the immolation of the Third Precinct station in Minneapolis—has come and gone, the need to draw up a balance sheet of what unfolded becomes urgent.

Lifting the Ban

By Jacob Blumenfeld

No new demands can bridge the gap of lost meaning, no new values can patch up the moral deficit, no new party can fill the void at the center of politics, for the gap itself is now occluded by time.