Jacobin’s friends and contributors pride themselves on their impeccable taste. They may not have any disposable income, but they rack up library late fees like it’s some sort of publicly funded expense account. Here’s some recent selections . . . 

Liza Featherstone

The current issue of Jacobin, of course! Got unexpectedly bored reading Slavoj Žižek — love him but tend to find his musings on “violence” too abstract and posturing to be helpful — but I really enjoyed the robustly supported arguments by Seth Ackerman and Mike Beggs.