In this essay, novelist and journalist Siddhartha Deb reflects on his journey from India’s north-eastern periphery to the heart of US empire, and his eventual disillusionment with the false promises of American intellectual life.

Support for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is at a historic low in Ireland. The left must seize the opportunity and forge a common platform, writes Mícheál Mac Donncha.

In this interview, Kneecap Manager and Bohs CCO Dan Lambert discusses joining the Nuestra América Convoy to deliver aid to Cuba. He highlights the "insane cruelty" of the escalating US blockade, the cowardice behind the silence of EU governments, and the resilience of ordinary Cubans.

Christianity and socialism may be vastly different ideological projects - but common factors caused their decline writes William Foley. Nevertheless, Christianity’s emphasis on personal ethics could provide insights for purposeful solidaristic movements of the future.

The Easter Rising was heroic, but the republican elite that emerged in its wake protected the rich, using the IRA to suppress land occupations. Andrew Flood argues that left republicanism is a dead end, always subordinating social revolution to the national cause.

Republicanism as a political philosophy has been both friend and foe to the left. An Clogán speaks with renowned political philosopher Philip Pettit about the ideology's past, present, limits, and potential.