Mamdani and the Future of the Left

Mamdani and the Future of the Left

Zohran Mamdani’s meteoric ascent, from an obscure state assemblyman to the leader of the world’s most important city in less than a year, has naturally sent commentators scurrying to read the tea leaves. Some see him as a domestication of hitherto foreign ideological flavors, such as “third-worldism” or (to use a French term) “islamo-gauchisme.” Others see the relentless economic focus of his campaign as pointing the way to a new version of the …