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  • Damage Magazine

    The present moment is severely damaged and in need of wide-ranging assessment.

  • Sam Kriss

    It's got eyes of brown, watery; nails of pointed yellow

  • Ryan Zickgraf

    Pennsylvania-based journalist & writer. Contributing writer, UnHerd. Contributing editor, Bungacast. Also seen in: Jacobin, Compact Magazine, Damage Magazine, etc.

  • Matt McManus

    Matt McManus teaches at Spelman College and is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism amongst other books

  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Joseph Grosso

    NYC writer and librarian

  • Alex Hochuli

    Modernist. Host of global politics podcast, Bungacast. Co-author, "The End of the End of History" (bungacast.com/book). Editorial group, Damage Magazine. Bylines in New Statesman, American Affairs, UnHerd, Compact, Jacobin, etc.

  • Dustin "Dino" Guastella

    Dustin "Dino" Guastella is Director of Operations for Teamsters Local 623 and a research associate with the Center for Working-Class Politics.

  • Benjamin Y. Fong
  • Scott Jenkins

    Scott Jenkins is a labor educator and an advisory board member at ASU’s Center for Work and Democracy.

  • Jared Abbott

    Center for Working-Class Politics

  • Jen Pan

    Author of Selling Social Justice: Why the Rich Love Antiracism (Verso, 2025)

  • Adam Smith
  • Adolph Reed

    Adolph Reed, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College.

  • Courtney Rawlings

    Host of Always at War

  • Leigh Phillips
  • Bayard Rustin

    Bayard Rustin was lead organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. RUSTIN'S CHALLENGE is available now from Damage Magazine.

  • James Adair

    James Adair is an Ottawa based writer and organizer focused on building socialist working class institutions. His writing mainly focuses on the Canadian left.

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