What You Should Have Read in 2022
We published 2,500 original essays in 2022. Here’s a recap in case you missed one or two of them.
Between print and online content, we’ve published some 2,500 original essays this year.
There’s no sugarcoating it: 2022 was rough. Between spiraling living costs, the war in Ukraine, and the return of fascists to power in Europe, it gave 2020 a run for its money as a year we’d all rather forget. But it’s also been a year of promise, with workers across the United States and the world striking in response to these challenges and fighting for the right to unionize — and even winning from time to time.
Through it all, Jacobin’s tried to cover these consequential events and help you make sense of them from a socialist perspective. We put out a couple thousand articles this year (not to mention hundreds of podcasts and videos). So, if you’re able, consider sending us a donation to support our work. All contributions through the end of the year will be matched.
January
At the start of the year, we were telling you cryptocurrency was a giant ponzi scheme way before it was cool, and we warned you that NFTs were bullshit, too, for good measure. We gleaned what we could from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and you were probably shocked to find out her sex-trafficker-for-the-ultrarich ex-boyfriend was closely tied to political elites from both sides of the aisle. Who says bipartisanship is dead?
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