Institute of Politics

Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine and the editorial director of Jacobin, a publication that he founded as an undergraduate in 2010. He is also the publisher of Bookforum, Catalyst, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. Sunkara is a former vice chair of the Democratic Socialists of America and is currently on the board of the Center for Working-Class Politics. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy, among other venues.