The latest issue of n+1 features an overview of French philosopher Étienne Balibar’s work.

“The ability to have an abortion is as important for women as the vote.”

Eileen Jones, who’s in the new issue of Jacobin, on the death of Roger Ebert.

Writing in the New York Times, of all places, a Harvard historian explains why “the conventional distinction between slavery and capitalism fades into meaninglessness.”

Bureaucracy, austerity, and callousness in the modern welfare state.

Susan Faludi profiles the late radical feminist Shulamith Firestone.

“Foundations are, virtually by definition, the voice of plutocracy.” Do they have a place in a democracy?

Owen Jones writes in the Independent, “Thatcherism was a national catastrophe, and we remain trapped by its consequences.”

Meanwhile, Jason Cowley in the New Statesman on Thatcher and the Left.

For a sense of the disaster Thatcher wrought, read the Socialist Register‘s analyses of the crushed 1984–85 miners’ strike.

A classic: Antonio Gramsci’s “Americanism and Fordism“

Barbara Fields and Ta-Nehisi Coates, in conversation.