Our Spring Issue, “Progress,” Is Here
“Progress is not automatic, linear, and irreversible; it is something that has to be fought for.”
519 Articles by: Editors
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Issue 57: Dossier
You could get invited to an eighteenth-century salon at any time. Be prepared.
Issue 57: Letters + The Internet Speaks
Email was invented for this very purpose —[email protected].
Hope Springs Eternal
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Protocols for a Better Magazine
We binged every episode of Huberman Lab. Things are getting weird.
Progress Report
We explained our issue prompt to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend five books on the idea of progress. The results — which represent the return of an AI author to Jacobin’s pages, after a somewhat clumsy chatbot interview in issue 52 — were more banal than sinister.
Veni, Vidi, Vici
How Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s mournful portrait of Rome shaped the Enlightenment’s understanding of progress.
Bellamy and Morris’s Dueling Utopias
How two socialist science-fiction bestsellers invited nineteenth-century readers into a grand debate about progress.
Stop the Music!
A brief catalog of genre-changing moments in music history.
Mine for the Taking
Niger has the opportunity to nationalize the uranium industry. Will it?
Build, Baby, Build!
Two decades of unprecedented infrastructure investments transformed China. Then the country hit a wall of debt.
Make Europe Productive Again
The EU has been trailing the US economically for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic only made its situation worse. Does Mario Draghi hold the secret to restoring Europe’s productivity?
Guyana’s Blessing and Curse
The tiny nation has discovered the world’s largest per capita oil reserves. What does the bonanza mean for its future?
Syria’s Revolution
Bashar al-Assad has left the building. It took fourteen years of bloody conflict.
Aliens Are Probably Communists
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A Strange Sort of Populism
Donald Trump’s billionaire appointees make his second administration the richest in US history.